Photo: Workshop at the Youth Home on youth and development in Northern Ghana. From the left: Firdaus, Kudus, Osman and Hamza.
By: Issah Osman, 22 years old
I am a youth of this country (Ghana) and said to be the backbone of my community and the country at large. Hence, I am classified as a youth because the youth is said to be a person or persons who has/have the maturity to understand and make good decisions that will help him/her in acquiring knowledge and skills for the development of his/her community.
In the traditional society that I live most of the youth are not educated properly, especially those in the villages, and this is a very big problem to my traditional society and Ghana as a whole. In my traditional community where traditional religion dominates we have a belief that the youth must be in the farm instead of schooling. And another issue that is hindering the development of youth is that we believe that the older generation should always lead the youth even if they lack experience.
Lack of education and opportunities for the youth in my community has led the youth to engage themselves in dangerous and various immoral acts that are not accepted by the society. Even some of the youth of my community who are educated to the tertiary level engage themselves in these immoral activities such as stealing, prostitution, alcoholism and even gamble so as to earn them a living, because they are denied jobs. Where ever they go the older generation claims that the youth are not experienced to work in the community. So, I therefore think that in order to help solve these uprising immoral acts in the country the government should provide more vacant places in the society so as to help the youth leaving school to be enrolled in a place of work. Another way of solving these are that there should be more youth associations that should be organised within the society so that the associations would be properly educating their country. A country with a stranded youth shall never develop! To finally draw a conclusion to how to solve these problems of the youth is when their needs are properly taken care of.
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