Blog #4: Plan Uganda to boost youth employment

Summary:
This article is about Uganda's plan, Plan International Uganda, to boost the job market for their younger generations. Youth unemployment is seen as one of the main factors in stinting the development of Africa.  An estimate of 12,00 youth will receive job placement, and Patrick Ssebowa Lubowa, the micro finance and business development specialist at Plan says that hopefully in three years this groups of young people will be able to teach others how to receive employment with what they will learn. This program is designed to help them reach their full potential and will be geared towards private sectored jobs. Their goal is to create new opportunities, so these kids can work their ways out of poverty. This is not the first time one of these plans have been implemented, and when they did try it didn't stop the unemployment rate from rising by the end of 2013, to 80%. The youth count for the largest amount of unemployed, yet Uganda can only provide 20% with jobs. In 2011, the government tried to implement a plan to allow youth to be able to take loans, but the banks said that youth were too unreliable and they had a hard time working with them at that time. However, in their fight to try to lower unemployment again, the bank agrees to support them with their plan, especially if it would create working products for their youth.

Analysis:
This article is showing that you have to reach your general population at a young age. In the effort to relieve poverty, it was a great idea for Uganda to target young people, because they are the next generation that will have to work for what they want to have. creating job for these young people, will contribute to their funds and will ultimately help them get themselves out of poverty and, for some, it may even help them get their families out of poverty. If private sectored jobs agree to begin to create new jobs for these youth, then it will help them to learn how to create their own businesses at a young age, to eventually create more jobs for others when they are well established in their business! While is is good for the youth in this program to be able to make bank transactions, it can also affect them negatively in the long run. Loans can be taken out, but they eventually have to be paid back, and who's to say that these youth will be able to make this money back to pay off their loan? No one, so with loans not being paid off, their debt rises, ultimately putting these kids back in poverty. I think Uganda's plan to help create jobs for their youth is awesome, and it is best that they are catching them at a youth age. Not that its bad to work with people when they are of an older age, but youth is the optimal age for teaching them lifelong skills. Reach them young and teach them young, it will make a world of difference.

 http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30380:-plan-uganda-to-boost-youth-employment&catid=38:business&Itemid=68