PM urges the youth to help alleviate poverty

PRIME Minister Nahas Angula has called on the youth to take up the challenge of self-empowerment in order to eradicate poverty.

Addressing the Karas Regional Youth Forum (KRYF) conference at Keetmanshoop over the weekend, Angula urged young people to make use of the opportunities created by the Government to develop their regions. He said the international perception of Africa as an object of sympathy because of its deep-rooted poverty must be changed.The aim of the conference was to enhance youth participation in development programmes.The Deputy Mayor of Keetmanshoop, Johannes Coleman, urged youth organisations to come with development programmes that would decrease the skyrocketing crime rate in the country.Coleman said they should also intensify HIV-AIDS awareness campaigns to change young people’s sexual behaviour.He said the international perception of Africa as an object of sympathy because of its deep-rooted poverty must be changed.The aim of the conference was to enhance youth participation in development programmes.The Deputy Mayor of Keetmanshoop, Johannes Coleman, urged youth organisations to come with development programmes that would decrease the skyrocketing crime rate in the country.Coleman said they should also intensify HIV-AIDS awareness campaigns to change young people’s sexual behaviour.