Grappling With Youths Development: How to Avoid Youth Restiveness

July 29, 2009 - In realisation of the important role youths can play in an society Governor Isa Yuguda argued stated that, youths and Women, and particularly the youths are beacon of every nation's future and unless special care, attention and goodwill is given to them, there may end up having a society of urban guerillas with a restive array of young people who are unemployed and angry and have no food to eat and no school to go to. Without due investment in devlopment for youths he foresaw a result enshrined in tragedy, so, as a government he argued that the country's major priority is to first of all embark on focused youth and women empowerment programmes to address the youth restiveness and women unemployment which we inherited from the previous administration.

It is evident today that one of the major challenges of development in Zimbabwe like any other country generally is what to do with the large army of the unemployed and sometimes restive youths. CIYDA has taken upon itself the responsibility of attempting to implement initiatives that aim to mop up the restive youths off the streets by engaging them productively in various empowerment programmes such as mentorship, volunteering, business start-up support, key skills acquisition to make them employable and employers of labour as well as direct economic empowerment.

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What is CIYDA
Contemporary Indigenous Youth Development Africa (CIYDA) is an non-profit organisation founded in 2008 and is based in Harare, Zimbabwe. CIYDA is working to develop and empower the youths of Zimbabwe for the benefits of the nation and Africa as a continent through the use of new media, information technology and networking amongst other things. Through these drivers, CIYDA aims to facilitate an information hub and service provision in the areas of Business Start-up, Social & Cultural Integration, Socio-economic Mentoring and Volunteering. CIYDA currently has a network connection of over 500 Zimbabwean youths in many countries amongst them, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia and Canada.