How can the Youths be Empowered

Youth participating in 4-H, a youth empowerment organization primarily in the United States; Source: source

There are many ways through which the youths all over the world can be empowered. This for some time has proven to be one of the ways to get young men and women in our society involved in the building of our society. It is a helpful approach that both government and individuals need to adopt.

Importance of Youth Empowerment

Importance of youth empowerment

When I was still a kid, I did not fully understand the level of hard times many youths were passing through. Then, when I saw young men and women grooving in their clean cars, I felt happy and thought it was easy for them before they established such achievement. As I was growing, I began to find out the reality about the life you and I are living in.

Some press companies all over the globe through their publications on poor youth empowerment have been lamenting on its bad side, which youth unemployment is not an exception. The media is doing the much it could but yet, the problem persists though some impacts have been made.

Youth Unemployment: You can determine Your Category

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It is true that youth unemployment is one of the challenges the youths all over the world are facing today. But I want to make it clear at this point; it is in your hands to choose the category you want to find yourself. If you want to be among the people being affected, it depends on you. If you in the other way want to be in the category being employed, all is your decision to make. So my friend, the choice is yours.


Being employed as used here does not really implies that you must work for someone. It means you keep yourself busy with something that will add money into your pocket. You can be self-employed or work under any establishment.

Procrastination:Killer of Youths Dreams

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Procrastination is defined as the action of delaying or postponing something. Olpin and Hesson (2013) defined it as the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished. Williams Webster Dictionary defined it as to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done. It is the delaying of activities that need to be attended to or forgetting it in totality as a result of laziness or carelessness.

Look at the Future Glory as a Youth

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During my undergraduate days in the university, I faced many challenges. These challenges include both financial and social challenges. Sometimes, I began to think far when I had no money at hand to take care of my expenses as a student. These thoughts sometimes landed me into severe headache. Whenever I recover, I kept moving. But in the course of those disturbances I was giving myself through thinking, I never gave up. I always beat my chest and said to myself, "Uzor you will make it because God is not dead". He is living and He sees all the challenges you are passing through. That kept me going.

Living better Life as a Youth

A youth who wants to live better life have some things he/she needs to know and at the same time put in place. One of the factors is proper plan and enforcement. In the book written by Joel Osteen which he entitled "Become a better You", there are some things he pointed out that can make someone better. Here, the topic is restricted to making youths better rather than addressing the larger number which makes that a broad topic.

In this article, we will be discussing few basic things youths need to know and do to live better. Also, at the end, a reference book which is written by this same author is presented for further study.

Tired as a Youth, What do I do

Life is like a diary which contains so many events, important contacts, and documentations. The contents of your diary will never be the same with the content of my own. That is to say that our contents are individually different. Though they may look alike in few cases but can never be the same.

That is the same way life journey is. Your mates as a young man might have achieved much but to your own judgement, you are still crawling. It is normal for you to think in that way because that is what makes you human. But the truth is that it may change nothing if you continue to blame yourself from now till tomorrow. That is not the best solution.

Tips for becoming a successful Youth

Everybody that wants to grow in life must live with the right information needed for such change to take effect. That information needed is what I refer to as the unique information. The unique information is what is needed to effect positive change.

The book "Tips for becoming a successful Youth" is classic book for the young. It is a motivation book which is one of the backbones of it's parent book "Basic Information in Youth and Youth Empowerment". What it implies is that this is one of the series of the book "Basic Information in Youth and Youth Empowerment". The book above above stands as one of the chapters of the book "Basic Information in Youth and Youth Empowerment".

Guide to Youth Challenges

When a youth is not guided, he can misbehave and have his or her life in mess. Any life that is messed up can never in any way yield good result at all. To avoid the problem from occurring, the need for the youth to be guided comes into play.

Overview and Roles of Youths in National Development

In some communities, the impact of the youths are not felt. That is one of the major reasons why they are not given the attention they deserve when they cry out. This we see all over the globe through news and other publications at large.

This book, which is one of the series of the book "Basic Information in Youth and Youth Empowerment" is written as an educational tool. It is written to take the reader on a tour by detailing out the areas where the youths have played many basic roles.

Basic Information in Youth and Youth Empowerment

Often times, people wonder why many social challenges affect the youths so much. It is so because many are not well guided in life and some lack the basic information they need for youthful development. Poor empowerment is another factor that causes it.