TAAAC Participates in the Youth Day Celebrations

Zambia National Women's Lobby Chongwe Basic School Boys Network joins the rest of the Zambian youths in celebrating this year's Youth Day.

Chongwe Boys Network march  with other schools from Chongwe District .

A boy from Chongwe Basic School displaying PPAZ's Referral Guide for Sexual Violence Service Providers

YWCA Kamwala High School Safe Space Girls participates in the Youth Day Celebrations

‘’Dialogue and Mutual Understanding’’ is the best practice that we the youths of Zambia can adopt but it comes with many challenges; if youths have to engage into dialogue and mutual understanding, they need leadership skills; at the same time a lot of youths have acquired the leadership skills and are ready to take up leadership roles and participate in decision making processes, but  there is need to create favorable structures that will allow youths to seek audience and be heard if we have to engage in dialogue and mutual understanding.

To interpret the theme, youths conducted focus group discussions a Kamwala High school, Lotus Basic and Marian Shrine Orphanage to empower youths with leadership skills to enable them dialogue  and have mutual understanding rather  than  resorting to rioting which may cause long term consequences. The youths were also taught on how to make sisal bags to enable them raise money for their school fees instead of engaging into harmful vices to raise money for school fees. (See pictures below)

TOPICS COVERED:

• Ø  Self Awareness
• Ø  Interpreting the theme Dialogue and Mutual Understanding
• Ø  Leadership skills

  

Empowerment skills on learning how to make sisal bags and table mats. 

Importance of learning a skill:

Ø  Youths or school girls and boys face a lot of challenges in rising school fees or their transport money to and from school. Other youths walk long distance with no food to get to the school and back home. Most youths come from poor families who cannot afford to provide for all their needs, while other youths head their own homes due to the loss of their parents. Such skills will enable youths to rise abit of money to pay for their school fees or transport money instead of engaging into harmful vices in order to raise money.

Ø   Youths will be able to teach their parents at home about this skill so that they are able to do it together and raise more money for the family too.

Ø  Such skills enables youths to also have a sense of responsibility, they are response for their own lives and have to do it wisely. This is a skill that can be expanded more after they complete their education as they wait for results because that is the period when most school leavers go world and engage in all sorts of harmful behaviors