National Youth Policy - Ministry of Youth, Sport & Culture

5.2 Strategic Area: Youth, Poverty and Hunger
Theme: Improve access to productive and sustainable use of resources
in rehabilitative efforts of young people affected by poverty and hunger.
Issues
i) Poverty remains a major concern amongst the youth
due to their limited control of family resources.
ii)
iii)
iv)
High levels of unemployment amongst the youth
increases their vulnerability to poverty and hunger.
The most serious forms of poverty are concentrated in
the country’s most remote areas.
Data regarding youth poverty are inadequate which
limits further analysis and the development of youth
specific poverty reduction interventions.
v) Poverty and hunger can also lead to ills such as child
labour, prostitution, crime, malnutrition and other
economic and social ills.
vi)
Extravagant lifestyles predisposes young people to
poverty as they quickly deplete the wealth at their
disposal.
vii)
Mismanagement of resources left in the care of
guardians to orphans.
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