COOPERATIVES: EFFECTIVE WAY OF ‘FIXING’ YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT…Form cooperatives to access the youth empowerment fund to create your own jobs – Chilekwa MambweBy SIMON MUNTEMBAYOUTH unemployment has remained one of the biggest challenges in Zambia, leading to economic downturns and frustrations among the youthful population who appear not to see light at the end of the tunnel.The prolonged unemployment has a negative effect on the jobless young people, and this ultimately contributes towards an increase in the level of poverty, cultivating bad vices leading to negative energy such as alcohol abuse, drugs, prostitution and theft.Indeed, the jobless rate has escalated to unprecedented levels in Zambia, as evidenced during a historic wind of change that swept through the nation on Thursday, August 12, 2021, with youths turning up in numbers, some in graduation gowns to vote out the government which they felt was not doing enough to resolve their plight.Youths were in the majority among the people […]
COOPERATIVES: EFFECTIVE WAY OF ‘FIXING’ YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
