Leadership Camp Be Productive; Youth Advised
The youth have been challenged to be productive and disciplined if they are to be respected.
This was during a Young Leaders Camp organized by Forum for Women in Democracy AT FOYER DE CHARITE- Namugongo under the theme “Citizens role in building a nation.
“The bulk of citizens in Uganda are the youth but are unemployed and even those who get work are not productive but keep grumbling. You have an option to do serious work or remain forever complaining about everything,” Leonard Okello the Executive Chairman of Uhuru institute said while facilitating at the camp.
He tasked the
youth to add value to whatever they do and warned that if they remained
unproductive, they would become a liability to the nation.
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| Participants listen in during the entrepreneurship session |
This was during a Young Leaders Camp organized by Forum for Women in Democracy AT FOYER DE CHARITE- Namugongo under the theme “Citizens role in building a nation.
“The bulk of citizens in Uganda are the youth but are unemployed and even those who get work are not productive but keep grumbling. You have an option to do serious work or remain forever complaining about everything,” Leonard Okello the Executive Chairman of Uhuru institute said while facilitating at the camp.
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| Participants share experiences after the Four-day leadership camp |
“Young people don’t want to take responsibility but if you are productive, you would be able to pay taxes and then take on government to deliver on its programmes. You should desist from being reckless because when this country gets messed up, it would be you to suffer and pick up the pieces.”
Mr. Okello asked the youth to desist from lamenting
but enjoy government services by taking children for immunization,
registration for the national identification among others.
“Let us separate partisan politics from a bare minimum of our responsibilities as national citizens.”
He asked the Youth to emulate the examples of the Japanese owned organizations like Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, among others which he said have transformed their clans to wealth minting machines instead of fighting and lamenting for what they don’t have.
“Let us separate partisan politics from a bare minimum of our responsibilities as national citizens.”
He asked the Youth to emulate the examples of the Japanese owned organizations like Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, among others which he said have transformed their clans to wealth minting machines instead of fighting and lamenting for what they don’t have.
The group included students and social workers
from districts of Mbale, Kibuku, Busia, Rukungiri Gulu Kibaale, Kibuku,
Luwero, Mityana, Wakiso and Masindi.
Maureen Kangere, a Programme Officer at FOWODE
says that the organization has been undertaking such camps since 2004
where over 500 youth have been trained. She says that they aim at
building a critical mass which will have the ability to appreciate and
interact with society especially the poor.
“Young people are becoming more aware of their civic duties and rights, they are seeing themselves as change agents not those to receive handouts from politicians and other people who want to use them.”
“Young people are becoming more aware of their civic duties and rights, they are seeing themselves as change agents not those to receive handouts from politicians and other people who want to use them.”
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