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Yet sharing skills can be enhanced through the formulation of organized Youth Development groups. Working individually is good but working as a group enhances your voice. As youths, we should endeavor to formulate groups -- not Gossip promoting groups -- but developmental groups which will enable us improve on our production and incomes. Such groups also attract funding from government and international bodies. With formed Youth Development groups, production is improved, incomes of members improved, education afforded, poverty reduced, and development realized.
Through team work we can also educate the masses about the importance of bearing manageable children and the dangers of early marriages. This will help minimize child mortality, maternal deaths due to early pregnancies, too much dependency, among many other dangers. However, effective application of this practice may necessitate some facilitation from the government and or international funding agencies. The government can support the above cause therefore through giving facilitation to the youth groups involved in the activity and also giving incentives/extra benefits like free education to small families. But this requires local council leaders to equip themselves with knowledge concerning each and every family.
Through youth groups, we should enhance our environment by tree planting, ensuring a clean Uganda by educating the masses about the dangers of living in a dirty environment and also the advantages of good sanitation among many other environmental issues. This will greatly improve on the environmental conditions, depreciating sanitary conditions and will make people enjoy better health conditions with clean water, less disease due to poor sanitation, and starving. Through youth groups, we must educate the masses about the importance of immunization.
Added to the above, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, Ugandan youths should also work towards a culture of valuing time. Most Ugandans do not take time as something precious. Many energetic youths misuse their time by indulging in too much leisure which accommodates practices like excessive gambling or promiscuous behavior causing unwanted pregnancies; too many others devote most of their time to excessive prayer without work hoping for miracles. I do not think that one of these days, food will start falling from heaven the way manna did in the past!
Likewise, development does not fall like manna. People work for it. We should therefore make good use of our time and achieve the very best out of it. Good and productive use of our time will lead to fat pockets, reduced starving, ability to afford education among many other benefits hence realization of the millennium Development Goals.
Yet people who value time do not wait for glittering jobs. They do any job that comes their way as long as it pays and sometimes seek self employment. As Ugandan youths, we should stop minimizing jobs. So many of us have degrees, diplomas and certificates but there are very few employment opportunities for us. We look at some jobs as cheap, demeaning, dirty and meant only for the uneducated yet we continue to roam the streets of “Kampala” searching for employment which is not there. After unsuccessful trials to gain employment, our sisters resort to prostitution, others fall victims of sexual/carpet interviews as a requirement to fulfill before being employed in Company X hence persistence of disease, multiplication of poverty and continued dependency. Therefore, as we wait to be employed in the fields for which we had training, we should take on any job that comes our way. Where possible, we should also create own employment. This will save us from a million troubles and its one of the major steps towards realization of the Millennium Development Goals.
However, we should also use the media like radio, television and newspapers constantly to advocate for an external workers’ policy. This will enable exportation of excess labour force to countries which suffer from labour shortages hence reducing the levels of unemployment in the country.
Added to the above, another effective way of advocating for an external workers’ policy is adoption of a “No policy-No vote” system. We should condition our power hungry leaders that if they want us (the youths) to vote for their stay in power, they should first ensure introduction of an external workers’ policy to save the country from raging unemployment.
All the above ideas are possible in an environment where most youths are healthy. But with the continued undisciplined spread of AIDS especially among youth due to ill practices like fear of testing, doctors both professional and traditional are sexually harassing female patients, female and male students giving their bodies to teachers in exchange for marks, and unfaithfulness of partners among others, there is still along way to go.
But as enlightened youth, we have to cut this short by respecting ourselves and our professions. Harsh punishments should be given to people who indulge in such and again the media can assist us put to light such common but silent injustices so that government attention is attracted and action taken sooner. As youths, we should also endeavor to teach fellow youth and other people in the villages the dangers of indulging in such bad practices and also teaching them the importance of HIV testing and counseling, plus positive living.
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some editing needed! Ssendagire Paul | Jun 2nd, 2005
Iam the author of the article and i realise the fact that this article needed some simple editing to correct some paragraph and some words like>the word FORWARD was misspelled.This also applys to words like BURY.I cannot claim expertise in Article writing but i try my level best to acquire this fundamental skill and i strongly believe that throyugh participation in TIG contests,i will become a super star in writing.GODBLESS!!
Big up! Gwebalibatya Noeline | Oct 20th, 2005
Its agood article and keep it up.
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