Youth Unemployment project

"No man is an Island" This is what my group and I believe in

Youth unemployment vs Food security

The Youth unemployment project was different from the initial project we started with. This was mainly because the approach to tackle the issue was different and it required a lot of research. Moreover, resources were not available to use, unlike with Food security project. With the Food Security various Farmers were allocated for various groups to work with. But was an issue was each group had to find their way to their farmers. But none the less, we all had a task to do and all we had to do was to plan and work our way to make our project a success in both our projects. I worked with dedicated individuals, as it was not a challenge dividing the work among ourselves and scheduling our meetings .We knew a lot had to be done so we did not waste time. Firstly, we had to research about what youth unemployment was and ways in which we could create an awareness that was going to reach a lot of young people who are unemployed.

One of the pictures we took during our site visit in Alex

We chose to target the youth in Alexandra because myself and two of my group members knew quite a number of young people who are unemployed and who stay in Alexandra. So we researched statistics and then we also interviewed young people from the area. A lot of writing was done as we also had to compile a document of what is it we found concerning the issue, our findings while conducting the interviews and putting our slides for the presentation (as we all know that slides cant be clusted with too much wording).

The use of social media in our project

The second step was to create What App group. This was a platform we were going to use to communicate and share ideas among-st our selves as a group. Moreover, we created a Facebook page to make people aware of the idea we came up with, which was to help the unemployed youth in Alexandra to register their names so that they can take part in the training that was to be conducted by the Tribe events company. Our Facebook page is called The Rookie campaign.

We worked on a very limited budget, so we had to come up with creative ways to make the project a success. Firstly, to reach a number of people we were going to post the event on Facebook and ask our classmate to like the page and also use the people we interviewed to share the page as well in their social media accounts. We believe that most young people have Facebook and are active in it as well. Secondly, we used emails to communicate our idea to our selected stakeholders.

Who were our stakeholders?

Our stakeholders were, the municipality of Alexandra and the Tribe event company. The municipality of Alexandra was emailed so that we can get the permission to hold the event at one of the local stadiums. Moreover, ask if the municipality can assist with in order to make our event a success. Our main stakeholder, Tribe events company was our main stakeholder because this is where the youth was going to be placed and offered jobs. After we have sent all the emails and our stakeholders were bought on board, we had to come up with a well defined event which was going to accommodate everyone. We gave our self a limited budget because we only emailed two stakeholders, moreover we anted to be as realistic as possible. We did not want to offer the youth false hope. Hence, we decided to hold the event at a local stadium and involve the municipality to cut down on cost.