Green Skills For The Youth: Towards a Sustainable World

 By:Augustine Mautin Kiki

Photo credit: UN Mission 

International Youth Day is celebrated globally on August 12th each year. The Initiative for celebrating the day was borne out of the desire to recognise the place of young people in sustainable development, appreciate their strengths, and redirect their invaluable abilities to meaningful development.

 

This year's celebration is centred around Green Skills for the Youth: Towards a Sustainable World. This thematic subject is quite timely in our world today, where we grapple with climate challenges that affect the fundamentals of our existence. The theme is perhaps a call to develop the necessary skills in young people to help combat the menace of climate change, which has become a major threat to world peace and development.

 

As an individual, I have been involved, since my teen years, in youthful activities in various fora, and have developed skills that focus on youth leadership and development. No doubt, my involvement in these activities has equally made me attain roles of leadership in various organisations in the larger society.

 

As various youth organisations prepare for this auspicious occasion, where we again rededicate our vows and energies to youth apostolate, I wish to join my voice as a member of several youth groups, and as an individual, to call on relevant authorities, corporate organisations, charities, and well meaning individuals to reach out to the youth at this time, support their initiatives, collaborate, and encourage them to become useful contributors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030.

 

No society can be anything meaningful without a deliberate investment in the youth.

 

Mr. Augustine Mautin Kiki

A Critic, Public Affairs Analyst and Youth Leadership Coach.