Top Skills for Youth: Reflective Beginnings for a Rewarding Finale

It is high time mentorship efforts started focusing more on developing learners while they are still in college to prepare them for the world of work. The usual wait to start real mentorship after they have graduated is a whole stage too late, dealing a heavy blow on industry efforts like a fall off the cliff edge.

Youth Despair and Cliff Edge Experience

The International Mentors Day was celebrated on January 17, 2021. The following reflections can do justice to such an important day in the present and future of youth.

Mentorship remains a priceless endeavour, a genuine call to be a multiplier of the little one possesses in return for a lifetime of rewarding experience that goes on to outlive the giver, impacting generation after generation.

Youth aged below 25 make up 40% of the global population. In Africa, 40% is aged under 15. An estimated 80 million youth aged 15–24 are unemployed. Graduating from college has for long lost its former glee as an immediate promise for better life and effective living. Like falling off the cliff edge, growing cases of gloom follow graduation as the masses get resigned to joblessness and despair. Cases of suicide and acts of violence, some tragic, have also been noted to be on the rise as schools…