GLOBAL YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

MANY FACTORS INCREASING THE STATISTICS OF YOUNG PEOPLE BEING JOBLESS

THE PICTURE WITH A TEXT ON THE CHALLENGE
OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

WHERE DID THE JOBS DISAPPEAR TO?

It’s shocking that every day when you go in the roads of South Africa we see more young people begging on the streets. Others just spend their days sitting in our townships doing nothing but because this is not only happening in the South but globally then the questions I’ve been asking myself I would find them appropriate if this was only happening in South Africa I would say our youth is lazy. Well in which they are most of the time, but the real question for me would be
Is the population of young people too much that even the companies don’t have any vacancies o hire them?Or do all of them in that large number of a statistic don’t meet certain requirements need by the company?Or is it because most of them don’t have work experience? Which I find to be weird because they can’t just have experience from tertiary they need to be hired in order to gain that required experience.

 LOOKING DEEP INTO THE CAUSES

Global youth unemployment is affecting many young people and the few factors adding to the youth being jobless. We find that many young people don’t have any education from higher education institutions because they can’t afford the fees or they don’t meet certain requirements then it becomes hard for them to have any career, not because companies are not hiring them but it would be the thing of not having any knowledge in that field, others have the qualification but the is no job because again it comes down to the thing of they don’t have experience but the are those ones with both qualification and the experience but have no jobs what went wrong in securing a job placement for themselves?

WHAT I TOOK WITH ME FROM THE CAMPAIGN 

For me, this is a topic that can be looked into with different angles really. Well I am a second year student and this is one of the campaigns I had to work with a group on them, for me it was amazing now the trick was because youth unemployment has become a well know and common topic that is always being addressed same with us all the groups must address on this same topic but come up with a unique angle be creative and stand out from others in the manner we should address this topic as groups.

It helped all of us because we played around different ideas and applied our PR skills in addressing the issue, we planned a youth unemployment conference and reached out to the suitable audience. We spoke more about the importance of personal branding, we helped people improve on how to write a professional curriculum vitae and helped them with creating job profiles on GumtreeThis assignment helped me in terms of improving my communication skills I was the MC for the conference and it also helped me in terms of approaching people and speaking with them. After the whole assignment I had to email people who supported us as our guests and that improved my writing skills cause know I don’t only prepare slide presentations but I am able to write to people different letters. We had to build relationships with the youth that we were helping to find jobs and because of the great plan that we had already used to help five young people find jobs we plan to continue using our skills and help others.

URBAN FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY

MY NEW KNOWLEDGE. AND WHAT AN EXQUISITE EXPERIENCE OBTAINED

THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP INSPIRED THINKERS AND THE
FARMER MR MNYOBI KETSO

Well as they say great experience come your way when you are willing to learn, that's what happened with the PPR 2 students we were given a project to work on which is "food security'' probably you are wondering why work with food and farming so boring? well relax that's what most students thought too when this project was introduced. but trust me that all changed within a week when they started reading up about food security, 

let me enlighten you a little bit on what food security is about. food security means that all people at all times have physical and economical access to enough quantity of nutrition's,  safe and proper food. foods that can be produced in a good environment that can continuously provide enough food for a very long time, and food security is not just about the availability of food. it is more about making informed decisions and good choices on the safe food to eat, following a proper vegetarian diet. 

SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND OPENING A DOOR FOR JOBS

So we had farmers that were allocated to us and they are all based in Soweto, it was an honor for us as a group to work with Mr Ketso on the project, he thought us the importance of the green vegetables that greens is not only lettuce and cucumber but a variate of other leaf vegetables that we had no idea about. oh yes it was quite a lesson, because now I don't only have knowledge on safety and healthy food but a lot more on how to create job opportunities through farming. we were granted an opportunity by the farmer to learn how to grow our own vegetables . 

MIXING PR WITH FARMING

No it didn't only end there. Yes we learnt a lot from the project and the most important point is that youth should engage in these kind of projects to create job opportunities and eradicate hunger, then the next dollar question would be what did we give back to the farmer? I am very proud with the effort and hard work we putted on this project, we applied our PR skills to create awareness for the farmer around the community, and build relationships between the farmer, other businesses and with other community centers by compiling an asset register for him. well because its farming it doesn't mean its not a formal business too.

OUR OBJECTIVES FOR THIS PROJECT WERE:

•  To create a documents that shows the farmer his SWOT anaylisis
• We looked into the farmers needs and draw a budget for him so he can buy that are important and he need also did a research on which stores have lower prices to get thing like hose pipes and seeds.
• And we helped with designing a poster for him so that many people can be aware that the is a farmer in the area.