National Youth Policy - Ministry of Youth, Sport & Culture

5.10: Strategic Area: Youth Moral and Spiritual Development
Theme: Promotion of moral and spiritual development in order to foster
peace, uphold ethics and appropriate values for national unity.
Issues
i) Moral degeneration among young people remains a
challenge due to socio-economic changes.
ii) Lack of meaningful parental guidance, support and
communication has also played a part in the erosion of
morality.
iii) Inadequate religious programmes to support moral
regeneration of the youth.
iv) Foreign cultural influences, as reflected in the media,
have influenced youth behaviours negatively.
v) Decline in extended family system, community cohesion
and weakening of cultural and religious institutions.
vi) Minimal integration of religious institutions to
complement moral and religious education among the
youth.
Strategies
i) Intensification of media programmes to emphasise the
importance of the role of the family in shaping moral
and spiritual values among the youth.
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