WINDHOEK-It is about time youth create job opportunities to fight unemployment and let the lack of jobs stop being
an excuse to poverty, says Youth Ambassador of the Namibia National Youth Council (NYC), Olavi Hangula.
Speaking at the National Youth Enterprise Expo in Grootfontein last Friday, Hangula says if the youth sits
back and complain about how there are no jobs, there will never be a solution to youth unemployment.“It brings
me joy to see how the youth have realised the impact that self-employment has brought. It’s about time we create
our own jobs. Innovation is a youthful commodity,” says Hangula. He adds that if the youth can start to realise
and practise the creation of jobs now, the generations to come will not know of the term ‘unemployment’.
“Like I always say, why be a leader tomorrow when you are alive today? Procrastination is murderer of dreams.”
Hangula says economic emancipation is possible, but only if youth highly believe and act to achieve their dreams. “If
the youth manipulate righteously the resources we have at hand, Namibia will excel in economic emancipation. If God
has given you a talent of talking, whoever told you that you needed a degree in physiology to put your talent to work,
was not right,” he says.
Hangula urges the youth not to focus on making money but on something very important to learn. “Let us study and
consume the necessary strategies and tools to make the Namibian dream come true. Let us remain success chasers,
ambition investors because the future is ours. Never forget innovation is a youthful commodity,” he inspires.
The three-day National Youth Enterprise Expo that was organised by the National Youth Council of Namibia ended
last Saturday.