AN AGENDA FOR ACTION

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going basically because in tough times we get acclimatized to the atmosphere and in the process, measures aimed at helping us to mitigate the same are hatched thereby by getting rid of the toughs. This may not be as easy as it reads but still, it is a sober possibility.

It is no more gossip that Malawi is infected and affected by socio-economic ailments. This awkward moment has made life incredibly unbearable for millions of people in the country, mostly the youth.

A good percentage of the youth are not basking in the sun of illiteracy, hence the very reason life is so painful to a greater extent since the pain is generated from the long wasted years of searching for non-available jobs after school.

Many youth are being abused and fed with empty hopes in the name of getting employed yet, there is hardly any job insight or else the jobs are already reserved for privileged ‘connected’ people.

The absence of jobs in a misfiring economy like ours is suicidal. We cannot keep piling up jobless graduates. That alone is a great source of frustration to the youth and it contributes to the erosion of Malawi’s economy. No country with a view to any form of future prosperity would allow its youths to such wastage.

However, as young people we need to change our mindset; by migrating from that of job seekers, to job creators; from writing good application letters and resumes, to writing great business plans.

Dear youngsters, time is up for us to keep waiting for change because we need to be drivers of change right now. By virtue of being Malawians, our citizenship alone should knock on our conscious that we must all work tooth and nail to serve and save our nation.