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One of the social gender inclusivity at all society, but my focus is centred on our youth, who remain an important group in our society.

issues which I remain passionate about, issue which affects all sectors of issues we as a country face, levels.
This is a social issues within our is that of I do not Many efforts have been made around the idea of youth inclusivity in empowering our youth and specifically the most disadvantaged, the girl child.

And the reason why we cannot shy away from the fact that the girl child is the most disadvantaged, because plagues such as teenage pregnancies and consequent school dropouts affect the girl child primarily.

Things such as single parenting affect the girl child primarily.
that our young boys and girls are sensitise with these issues.

Somewhere our boy children will have to take responsibility and join in the fight against It becomes so important at this point these gender imbalances.

is We have succeeded in the efforts of creating platforms for the robust engagement on youth issues, but I must say, we have failed in providing these platforms in the areas in which they are needed most and to the groups which are affected most by these social plagues.

exclusionary.
exclusionary.

We cannot have these forums and events in areas where those directly affected are not able to even attend, platforms to our people.

Let us take them to the neighbourhoods where these issues are most prevalent.

Let us take them to the regions in which they are most prevalent.

Let us start hearing from our people.

It is enough that platforms to hear youth views are It is time that we take these to begin with.
When it comes to the corporate social responsibility of entities in the private sector, more emphasis needs to be placed on what they are doing to break social ills such as Violence and Gender-based cannot hide from.

maize-meal and see this as them doing enough for our communities.
Somewhere we need to draw the line and have mechanisms in place to ensure that relevant social problems are dealt with in a tangible and long- lasting, It is very disheartening to see many corporate bodies donate violence specifically as this remains an issue we impactful manner.

Moreover, our laws need to truly start reflecting what truly hurt me to read about age of eight.
These are one of the examples where our customary laws clash with our civil that we as lawmakers start debating these issues and making our position clear on these issues.

the young girl who was married off by her parents at the it is we value as a society.

laws and it is important It level, we need to start taking personal On a personal seriously the role that we have in our communities.

We need to start driving change, in our personal and professional capacities.
Positive role-modelling ways in which we can do this as individuals.

Let us start holding ourselves accountable to making these social changes.

responsibility and take is one of the As a collective, we need to start unlocking resources for the implementation programmes which will keep our youth off the streets.

youth resource centres, environmental clubs and the likes.
Let us start being creative Initiatives such as educational of in our efforts to keep our youth away from that which perpetuates the gender imbalance.

Let's take a radical approach in tackling these social ills.

It is time we recognise the dire need for social programmes which keep our youth away from engaging in ills such as alcohol abuse, drug abuse etc.

And the time is now.