Commission vows to embrace youths

 By JUNIOR UKAHA

THE National Youth Commission is embarking on a cross-cutting drive to identify all youth organisations in the country and help them.  

This is part of measures under the National Youth Development Plan 2011-15

National Youth Commissioner Johnson Hebe said the plan was to identify youth organisations and partner with them to develop the aspirations of young people.

He made this known after a fact-finding mission to Laloki in Central, to visit Dahcavill School, which is owned and operated by veteran citizen David Alfred Hardy and his wife.

“The bottom-line is to make young people of today better, responsible and productive citizens of the future,” Hebe said.

“We will not be around 50 years from now and it is these young people who will lead the country then,” he said.

Hardy, who was surprised by Hebe’s visit to the school, said they rarely received important guests at the school and the commissioner’s visit was a bonus for them.

He said the school was a multi-purpose school and taught anything according to the wishes of the community.

“What we do here is more practical and depends on the needs of the community,” Hardy said.

“We don’t change what is in our students. 

“We only bring out and develop what they already have”.

Hardy said he was pleased to have Hebe at the school and said if there were any programmes the commission needed to have implemented in the province, the school was willing to help. 

He said the school provided theory and practical lesions in farming, machining, computing, cooking and literacy. 

Hebe said he was impressed by the institution’s set-up and once funding was available he would help the school. 

He said the move was in line with the Medium Term Development Plan 2011-15 and the Vision 2050.