Youth Unemployment Campaign

Now let's talk youth unemployment!

The Youth Unemployment issue.

Maybe some of you always wonder what is youth unemployment or what about it. There's a lot to find out about this issue.Looking at youth unemployment in a broader manner,it seems like every country faces this issue.Well,It's a global crisis.Countries have been facing youth unemployment so I would like to believe it's not something that just started happening,What I mean is there's history to it.However, this crisis has been addressed on the different media platforms many times and the global youth unemployment rates have been compared based on different countries.Obviously youth unemployment rates decrease and increase.Interesting enough! some other countries are improving with this issue while other countries are still struggling trying to find solutions.Statistics have provided information in numbers,graphs and charts about youth unemployment.

Working hand in hand with Harambee

We worked on this campaign as a group"Bathathe Accelerators"  and we involved harambee. Harambee is a youth unemployment accelerators, the purpose of our partnership with harambee was to create job awareness and educate youth about Harambee. However , we have visited harambee and had meetings with some of the employees. Opportunely they agreed to work with us on this campaign of youth unemployment and we also had a chance to visit one of the high schools situated in Joburg. Some of our implementations as a group involved creating and disseminate pamphlets for harambee and publishing a blog on Harambee. Working as a team has helped me improve my skills of communicating and writing because we then had to create an online blog but we used an already existing one owned by one of our group member.Again we had to engage on the media , I had to be active on different social networks including twitter and LinkedIn.However,I also had to contribute on traditional media because we created a printed pamphlet.Not forgetting the engagement of our client(Harambee) and our stakeholders (Students) hence I mentioned before we visited schools and harambee as well,to maintain our relationship.Personally, I have learnt from this campaign and gained more knowledge about youth unemployment as a global crises and  the current statistics.As a group we then had to be creative and come up with alternative solutions on this issue, honestly?! we tried because we reached a number of students, youth and people on the streets which we gave out pamphlets to.So working with Harambee was such a great and helpful experience,we were proud that our campaign developed because harambee gained followers and applicants.

Watch some of the Youth Unemployment protest