STAKEHOLDERS ENCOURAGE YOUTH TO ENGAGE IN PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES

Youths participating in co-operative farming in Madi sub-region.
 
By Araba Kalsum
Moyo
 
Stakeholders in Moyo sub-county Moyo district have encouraged the youths to engage in productive works for self-reliance.
 
Asio Josephine a display officer from Vurra Bilinyo West said that one can volunteer to earn a living.
 
“You can do anything. It can be a small business, you can sell your tomatoes and work in someone’s shop or drug shop as you wait for these other bigger opportunities on top of that you can go and volunteer because in this economy of today it needs all of us to work because once you sit at home, it really becomes very hard we need to look for something to do so that can we survive on it”.
 
Whereas Moini Emmanuel the youth counselor Moyo sub-county appealed to the youths to work hard during their youthful age because once they grow older they become tired.
 
When you start doing things in your youthful stage it will help you in your old age and in life when you reach in your 40s- 50s you will become tired and if you are not organized like in education we have to keep struggling while doing other things so life really becomes a threat,” Moini emphasized.
 
Iranya Charles Lulu the Afoji social resource chairperson expressed that the unstable rains made youths lazy and called upon them to change their mind to work since there is rain.
 
“There has been a challenge of rains and weather changes that made the youths idle and lazy because it has not been raining for a while but I now call upon our youths that now two to three days the weather has changed we have started receiving plenty rains, they can start farming instead of sitting and chewing marungi,” Lulu noted.
 
However Sargent Inyala John Francis the acting officer in-charge Moyo sub-county encouraged the youths to be creative and innovative and participate in agriculture.
 
“it’s good for the youths to be creative and innovative because a job will never get you at home when you are just seated, there are some small loans which are given to people to set up small businesses if one can afford to give a small loan to buy land and start planting early maturing crops harvest and later sell then open a small businesses by doing so one will earn a living and not attempt to steal from others,” Inyala lamented.