PROGRAMME & OUTCOME

Money in my pocket

The main issues emerging from the group work on Money in my pocket were:

• Lack of job opportunities and resulting youth unemployment, brain drain
• Educational deficiencies: training for youth, teachers sometimes not paid, need for more local teachers, lack of training in starting own business, structure of the education system, lack of experience for youth, literacy rates, high cost of tertiary level education
• Discrimination
• Gender issues
• Exploitation of youth
• Schemes to share ideas and skills between islands
• Need for career guidance and apprenticeships
• Difficulty of obtaining loans for local investors and young entrepreneurs, successful young entrepreneurs not helping other youth
• High taxation and low standard of living
• Trade issues
• Foreign investment
• Prostitution, money laundering
• Foreign workers

With this theme, some groups had insufficient time to develop project proposals. The potential projects developed were as follows:

• Creating a database about school dropouts, and mobilizing partners to establish an orientation centre for young dropouts (2 project proposals)
• How to earn living project (HELP) - raising the level of awareness about youth unemployment
• Advocacy to ease the squeeze on university fees
• Establishing an investment information center for youth

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