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[How DHL is helping Sierra Leone’s youth secure their future] => シエラレオネの若者の未来を支える DHL の取り組み
[Sierra Leone’s youth have been plagued by unemployment due to the 11-year civil war, but training and education programs are giving them a shot at building a brighter future.] => 11 年に及ぶ内戦の影響により、シエラレオネの若者はこれまで失業に悩まされてきました。しかし、現在ではトレーニングや教育プログラムが提供されるようになり、より明るい将来を作り出す機会が与えられるようになりました。
[Sierra Leone’s youth have been plagued by unemployment, but training and education programs are giving them a shot at building a brighter future.] => シエラレオネの若者はこれまで失業に悩まされてきました。しかし、現在ではトレーニングや教育プログラムが提供されるようになり、より明るい将来を作り出す機会が与えられるようになりました。
[More recently, international NGO SOS Children’s Villages, in partnership with Deutsche Post DHL Group, launched a Youth Can! Project and GoTeach program for youth employability in Sierra Leone in April 2021.
“At DHL, our purpose is connecting people and improving lives. In some way, the Youth Can! Project, in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, resonates with the aspect of improving lives. We believe that this project will help to transform our youth and give them the impetus to overcome challenges and to be self-reliant,” said Alphonso Pratt, Country Manager, DHL Express Sierra Leone.
The initiative will directly benefit 350 vulnerable young people with skills training, a business start-up for young entrepreneurs, employability and mentorship.
This will help them successfully transition from school to becoming independent and having a decent job — key requisites that will empower youth and set them up for a better, more secure future.] => 最近では、NGO である「SOS 子どもの村インターナショナル」が Deutsche Post DHL Group と提携して、「若者はできる！（Youth Can）」プロジェクトと、2021 年 4 月には、若者の雇用可能性を向上させる「GoTeach」プログラムをシエラレオネで開始しました。
「DHL の目的は、人と人をつなぎ、暮らしの向上に寄与することにあります。SOS 子どもの村インターナショナルとの提携関係による、「若者はできる！」プロジェクトは、生活を向上させるという私たちの目的にある意味で共鳴するところがあるのです。このプロジェクトによって、若者たちが変化し、課題を克服して自立するための原動力となることを信じています」と、DHL Express Sierra Leone のカントリーマネージャーである、Alphonso Pratt は述べています。
この取り組みでは、350 人の弱い立場に置かれている若者に対して、スキルを身に付ける訓練、若い起業家向けの事業スタートアップ、雇用機会、メンターシップなどの直接的なメリットが与えられます。
この取り組みにより、若者は学校を卒業後、自立して、きちんとした仕事に就くまでの移行期間をうまく切り抜ける手助けを受けられます。教育や訓練は、同国の若者を力付け、より素晴らしい、安全な未来を築くための重要な必要条件です。
[On the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, it is not uncommon to see youths looking for work building roads or digging ditches every day.
The young people of the West African country are able and willing, but jobs are scarce. While many have migrated from rural to urban areas to carve out a better life, their efforts have been in vain.
Approximately 70 percent of citizens aged 15 to 35 are unemployed or underemployed — one of the highest rates in Africa and the world. Coupled with a fast-growing population, Sierra Leone now has its hands full with around 800,000 young people looking for jobs.
Many of them lack the skills or education to be employed in a labor market that already offers limited opportunities.
With the Covid-19 pandemic worsening the problem, stakeholders are banding together to help Sierra Leone surmount its unemployment issue.
Backed by the United Nations (UN), the government and private sector companies are driving vocational training and education programs for young Sierra Leoneans to increase their employability and address the domestic demand for skilled jobs.
For many of Sierra Leone’s youth, this marks the promise of a brighter future.
Marginalized and vulnerable
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. They face dim prospects given their low levels of education, which has translated into a 50 percent illiteracy and unskilled rate.
The 11-year civil war had led to the destruction of 1,270 primary schools and 820 secondary, tertiary and vocational schools. Without peace and stability, potential jobs in agriculture and tourism also vanished, underpinning a stark reality. In 2015, 25.8 percent of young women and 13.1 percent of young men had no schooling or training.
The Covid-19 outbreak last year further hindered the country’s road to recovery.
Today, there is an influx of unskilled youth seeking employment in a market where more technical skills are needed to maintain a growing economy. Poor quality of skills is a significant constraint preventing firms from modernizing and improving product quality even as more private sector investments are entering the country.
“Urgent action is therefore required to create employment opportunities with a view to reducing the lingering effects of the marginalization of the country’s young people, who constitute the largest segment of the population,” said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a report.
Empowering the youth
As the pandemic heightens the urgency of Sierra Leone’s unemployment problem, internal and external agencies are springing into action to boost employment prospects for the country’s young people.
The International Organization for Migration’s US$3.4 million (€2.81 million) vocational training program registered its 940th participant in March 2021. It aims to train 2,000 unemployed young people in relevant work skills such as repairing and operating farming, road construction and mining machinery.
The same month, the UN Industrial Development Organization and Japan’s government signed a US$3.88 million (€3.21 million) agreement to establish automotive training centers, which will equip over 10,000 Sierra Leoneans with automotive repair and maintenance skills.
Sierra Leone’s government is also actively involved, having established the National Youth Commission in 2010 to coordinate strategic planning and policy development to create more youth employment opportunities.
This comes on the back of its collaborative work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 2010 to 2012 to alleviate youth unemployment by creating jobs, building economic development and supporting a sustainable employment ecosystem through various policies and institutions.] => シエラレオネの首都フリータウンの街角では毎日、道路建設や溝掘りなどの仕事を求める若者の姿を見かけることが少なくありません。
西アフリカにあるシエラレオネの若者には能力も意欲もありますが、仕事がほとんどない状況におかれています。より良い生活を求めて農村部から都市部に移り住む若者は後を絶ちませんが、それはこれまで無駄な努力に終わっていました。
シエラレオネでは、15 歳から 35 歳までの国民の約 70% が失業中または不完全雇用の状態にあり、これはアフリカもとより、世界的にも最も高い失業率の 1 つとなっています。急速に増加する人口と相まって、シエラレオネでは現在、約 800,000万人の若者が仕事を求めている状態にあります。
もとより雇用機会が限定されている同国の労働市場において、こうした若者の多くには雇用に適したスキルがなく、教育を受ける機会も制限されていました。
新型コロナウイルスの流行がこの問題に拍車をかける中で、利害関係者がシエラレオネの失業問題を克服するために協力しています。
国連の支援を受けて、シエラレオネ政府と民間企業が青少年向けに職業訓練と教育プログラムを推進しています。若者の雇用機会を増やし、熟練した仕事に対する国内需要に応えようとしているのです。
多くのシエラレオネの若者にとって、こうした訓練やプログラムはより明るい未来を約束してくれます。
このパンデミックの影響でシエラレオネの失業問題が緊急性を増す中、国内の若者の雇用機会を増やすために、国内外の機関が行動を起こしています。
国際移住機関による、340 万米ドル（281 万ユーロ）規模の職業訓練プログラムには、2021 年 3月時点で 940 人の参加者が登録しています。
2,000 人の失業中の若者を対象とするこのプログラムでは、農業、道路建設、鉱山機械の修理と操作などに関連する仕事のスキルの習得を目的としています。
同月、国際連合工業開発機関と日本政府は、388 万米ドル（321 万ユーロ）を投じて自動車トレーニングセンターを設立し、10,000人を超えるシエラレオネ人を対象に自動車の修理・整備技術を習得させることで合意しました。
シエラレオネ政府も積極的に関与しており、2010 年には国家青少年委員会を設立し、若者の雇用機会を増やすための戦略的計画と政策の立案を調整しています。
このような背景には、2010 年から 2012 年にかけて、政府がさまざまな政策や制度を通じて、非政府組織（NGO）と協力しながら、雇用の創出、経済発展の構築、持続可能な雇用のエコシステムを支援することにより、若者の失業を緩和するための活動を行ってきたことがあります。
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[GoTeach: Improving educational opportunity and employability] => GoTeach: 教育の機会と雇用可能性の改善
[The goal of DPDHL Group's GoTeach program is to improve the employability of young people, especially those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.] => DPDHLグループのGoTeachプログラムの目標は、若者、特に社会経済的背景が不利な若者の雇用可能性を向上させることです。
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[On the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, it is not uncommon to see youths looking for work building roads or digging ditches every day.
The young people of the West African country are able and willing, but jobs are scarce. While many have migrated from rural to urban areas to carve out a better life, their efforts have been in vain.
Approximately 70 percent of citizens aged 15 to 35 are unemployed or underemployed — one of the highest rates in Africa and the world. Coupled with a fast-growing population, Sierra Leone now has its hands full with around 800,000 young people looking for jobs.
Many of them lack the skills or education to be employed in a labor market that already offers limited opportunities.
With the Covid-19 pandemic worsening the problem, stakeholders are banding together to help Sierra Leone surmount its unemployment issue.
Backed by the United Nations (UN), the government and private sector companies are driving vocational training and education programs for young Sierra Leoneans to increase their employability and address the domestic demand for skilled jobs.
For many of Sierra Leone’s youth, this marks the promise of a brighter future.
Marginalized and vulnerable
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. They face dim prospects given their low levels of education, which has translated into a 50 percent illiteracy and unskilled rate.
The 11-year civil war had led to the destruction of 1,270 primary schools and 820 secondary, tertiary and vocational schools. Without peace and stability, potential jobs in agriculture and tourism also vanished, underpinning a stark reality. In 2015, 25.8 percent of young women and 13.1 percent of young men had no schooling or training.
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. (Photo: Shutterstock)
The Covid-19 outbreak last year further hindered the country’s road to recovery.
Today, there is an influx of unskilled youth seeking employment in a market where more technical skills are needed to maintain a growing economy. Poor quality of skills is a significant constraint preventing firms from modernizing and improving product quality even as more private sector investments are entering the country.
“Urgent action is therefore required to create employment opportunities with a view to reducing the lingering effects of the marginalization of the country’s young people, who constitute the largest segment of the population,” said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a report.
Empowering the youth
As the pandemic heightens the urgency of Sierra Leone’s unemployment problem, internal and external agencies are springing into action to boost employment prospects for the country’s young people.
The International Organization for Migration’s US$3.4 million (€2.81 million) vocational training program registered its 940th participant in March 2021. It aims to train 2,000 unemployed young people in relevant work skills such as repairing and operating farming, road construction and mining machinery.
The same month, the UN Industrial Development Organization and Japan’s government signed a US$3.88 million (€3.21 million) agreement to establish automotive training centers, which will equip over 10,000 Sierra Leoneans with automotive repair and maintenance skills.
Sierra Leone’s government is also actively involved, having established the National Youth Commission in 2010 to coordinate strategic planning and policy development to create more youth employment opportunities.
This comes on the back of its collaborative work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 2010 to 2012 to alleviate youth unemployment by creating jobs, building economic development and supporting a sustainable employment ecosystem through various policies and institutions.
RELATED ARTICLESGoTeach: Improving educational opportunity and employabilityThe goal of DPDHL Group's GoTeach program is to improve the employability of young people, especially those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.More recently, international NGO SOS Children’s Villages, in partnership with Deutsche Post DHL Group, launched a Youth Can! Project and GoTeach program for youth employability in Sierra Leone in April 2021.
“At DHL, our purpose is connecting people and improving lives. In some way, the Youth Can! Project, in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, resonates with the aspect of improving lives. We believe that this project will help to transform our youth and give them the impetus to overcome challenges and to be self-reliant,” said Alphonso Pratt, Country Manager, DHL Express Sierra Leone.
The initiative will directly benefit 350 vulnerable young people with skills training, a business start-up for young entrepreneurs, employability and mentorship.
This will help them successfully transition from school to becoming independent and having a decent job — key requisites that will empower youth and set them up for a better, more secure future.] =>
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The young people of the West African country are able and willing, but jobs are scarce. While many have migrated from rural to urban areas to carve out a better life, their efforts have been in vain.
Approximately 70 percent of citizens aged 15 to 35 are unemployed or underemployed — one of the highest rates in Africa and the world. Coupled with a fast-growing population, Sierra Leone now has its hands full with around 800,000 young people looking for jobs.
Many of them lack the skills or education to be employed in a labor market that already offers limited opportunities.
With the Covid-19 pandemic worsening the problem, stakeholders are banding together to help Sierra Leone surmount its unemployment issue.
Backed by the United Nations (UN), the government and private sector companies are driving vocational training and education programs for young Sierra Leoneans to increase their employability and address the domestic demand for skilled jobs.
For many of Sierra Leone’s youth, this marks the promise of a brighter future.
Marginalized and vulnerable
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. They face dim prospects given their low levels of education, which has translated into a 50 percent illiteracy and unskilled rate.
The 11-year civil war had led to the destruction of 1,270 primary schools and 820 secondary, tertiary and vocational schools. Without peace and stability, potential jobs in agriculture and tourism also vanished, underpinning a stark reality. In 2015, 25.8 percent of young women and 13.1 percent of young men had no schooling or training.
[caption id="attachment_13869" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. (Photo: Shutterstock)[/caption]
The Covid-19 outbreak last year further hindered the country’s road to recovery.
Today, there is an influx of unskilled youth seeking employment in a market where more technical skills are needed to maintain a growing economy. Poor quality of skills is a significant constraint preventing firms from modernizing and improving product quality even as more private sector investments are entering the country.
“Urgent action is therefore required to create employment opportunities with a view to reducing the lingering effects of the marginalization of the country’s young people, who constitute the largest segment of the population,” said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a report.
Empowering the youth
As the pandemic heightens the urgency of Sierra Leone’s unemployment problem, internal and external agencies are springing into action to boost employment prospects for the country’s young people.
The International Organization for Migration’s US$3.4 million (€2.81 million) vocational training program registered its 940th participant in March 2021. It aims to train 2,000 unemployed young people in relevant work skills such as repairing and operating farming, road construction and mining machinery.
The same month, the UN Industrial Development Organization and Japan’s government signed a US$3.88 million (€3.21 million) agreement to establish automotive training centers, which will equip over 10,000 Sierra Leoneans with automotive repair and maintenance skills.
Sierra Leone’s government is also actively involved, having established the National Youth Commission in 2010 to coordinate strategic planning and policy development to create more youth employment opportunities.
This comes on the back of its collaborative work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 2010 to 2012 to alleviate youth unemployment by creating jobs, building economic development and supporting a sustainable employment ecosystem through various policies and institutions.
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[How DHL is helping Sierra Leone’s youth secure their future] => シエラレオネの若者の未来を支える DHL の取り組み
[Sierra Leone’s youth have been plagued by unemployment due to the 11-year civil war, but training and education programs are giving them a shot at building a brighter future.] => 11 年に及ぶ内戦の影響により、シエラレオネの若者はこれまで失業に悩まされてきました。しかし、現在ではトレーニングや教育プログラムが提供されるようになり、より明るい将来を作り出す機会が与えられるようになりました。
[Sierra Leone’s youth have been plagued by unemployment, but training and education programs are giving them a shot at building a brighter future.] => シエラレオネの若者はこれまで失業に悩まされてきました。しかし、現在ではトレーニングや教育プログラムが提供されるようになり、より明るい将来を作り出す機会が与えられるようになりました。
[More recently, international NGO SOS Children’s Villages, in partnership with Deutsche Post DHL Group, launched a Youth Can! Project and GoTeach program for youth employability in Sierra Leone in April 2021.
“At DHL, our purpose is connecting people and improving lives. In some way, the Youth Can! Project, in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, resonates with the aspect of improving lives. We believe that this project will help to transform our youth and give them the impetus to overcome challenges and to be self-reliant,” said Alphonso Pratt, Country Manager, DHL Express Sierra Leone.
The initiative will directly benefit 350 vulnerable young people with skills training, a business start-up for young entrepreneurs, employability and mentorship.
This will help them successfully transition from school to becoming independent and having a decent job — key requisites that will empower youth and set them up for a better, more secure future.] => 最近では、NGO である「SOS 子どもの村インターナショナル」が Deutsche Post DHL Group と提携して、「若者はできる！（Youth Can）」プロジェクトと、2021 年 4 月には、若者の雇用可能性を向上させる「GoTeach」プログラムをシエラレオネで開始しました。
「DHL の目的は、人と人をつなぎ、暮らしの向上に寄与することにあります。SOS 子どもの村インターナショナルとの提携関係による、「若者はできる！」プロジェクトは、生活を向上させるという私たちの目的にある意味で共鳴するところがあるのです。このプロジェクトによって、若者たちが変化し、課題を克服して自立するための原動力となることを信じています」と、DHL Express Sierra Leone のカントリーマネージャーである、Alphonso Pratt は述べています。
この取り組みでは、350 人の弱い立場に置かれている若者に対して、スキルを身に付ける訓練、若い起業家向けの事業スタートアップ、雇用機会、メンターシップなどの直接的なメリットが与えられます。
この取り組みにより、若者は学校を卒業後、自立して、きちんとした仕事に就くまでの移行期間をうまく切り抜ける手助けを受けられます。教育や訓練は、同国の若者を力付け、より素晴らしい、安全な未来を築くための重要な必要条件です。
[On the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, it is not uncommon to see youths looking for work building roads or digging ditches every day.
The young people of the West African country are able and willing, but jobs are scarce. While many have migrated from rural to urban areas to carve out a better life, their efforts have been in vain.
Approximately 70 percent of citizens aged 15 to 35 are unemployed or underemployed — one of the highest rates in Africa and the world. Coupled with a fast-growing population, Sierra Leone now has its hands full with around 800,000 young people looking for jobs.
Many of them lack the skills or education to be employed in a labor market that already offers limited opportunities.
With the Covid-19 pandemic worsening the problem, stakeholders are banding together to help Sierra Leone surmount its unemployment issue.
Backed by the United Nations (UN), the government and private sector companies are driving vocational training and education programs for young Sierra Leoneans to increase their employability and address the domestic demand for skilled jobs.
For many of Sierra Leone’s youth, this marks the promise of a brighter future.
Marginalized and vulnerable
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. They face dim prospects given their low levels of education, which has translated into a 50 percent illiteracy and unskilled rate.
The 11-year civil war had led to the destruction of 1,270 primary schools and 820 secondary, tertiary and vocational schools. Without peace and stability, potential jobs in agriculture and tourism also vanished, underpinning a stark reality. In 2015, 25.8 percent of young women and 13.1 percent of young men had no schooling or training.
The Covid-19 outbreak last year further hindered the country’s road to recovery.
Today, there is an influx of unskilled youth seeking employment in a market where more technical skills are needed to maintain a growing economy. Poor quality of skills is a significant constraint preventing firms from modernizing and improving product quality even as more private sector investments are entering the country.
“Urgent action is therefore required to create employment opportunities with a view to reducing the lingering effects of the marginalization of the country’s young people, who constitute the largest segment of the population,” said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a report.
Empowering the youth
As the pandemic heightens the urgency of Sierra Leone’s unemployment problem, internal and external agencies are springing into action to boost employment prospects for the country’s young people.
The International Organization for Migration’s US$3.4 million (€2.81 million) vocational training program registered its 940th participant in March 2021. It aims to train 2,000 unemployed young people in relevant work skills such as repairing and operating farming, road construction and mining machinery.
The same month, the UN Industrial Development Organization and Japan’s government signed a US$3.88 million (€3.21 million) agreement to establish automotive training centers, which will equip over 10,000 Sierra Leoneans with automotive repair and maintenance skills.
Sierra Leone’s government is also actively involved, having established the National Youth Commission in 2010 to coordinate strategic planning and policy development to create more youth employment opportunities.
This comes on the back of its collaborative work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 2010 to 2012 to alleviate youth unemployment by creating jobs, building economic development and supporting a sustainable employment ecosystem through various policies and institutions.] => シエラレオネの首都フリータウンの街角では毎日、道路建設や溝掘りなどの仕事を求める若者の姿を見かけることが少なくありません。
西アフリカにあるシエラレオネの若者には能力も意欲もありますが、仕事がほとんどない状況におかれています。より良い生活を求めて農村部から都市部に移り住む若者は後を絶ちませんが、それはこれまで無駄な努力に終わっていました。
シエラレオネでは、15 歳から 35 歳までの国民の約 70% が失業中または不完全雇用の状態にあり、これはアフリカもとより、世界的にも最も高い失業率の 1 つとなっています。急速に増加する人口と相まって、シエラレオネでは現在、約 800,000万人の若者が仕事を求めている状態にあります。
もとより雇用機会が限定されている同国の労働市場において、こうした若者の多くには雇用に適したスキルがなく、教育を受ける機会も制限されていました。
新型コロナウイルスの流行がこの問題に拍車をかける中で、利害関係者がシエラレオネの失業問題を克服するために協力しています。
国連の支援を受けて、シエラレオネ政府と民間企業が青少年向けに職業訓練と教育プログラムを推進しています。若者の雇用機会を増やし、熟練した仕事に対する国内需要に応えようとしているのです。
多くのシエラレオネの若者にとって、こうした訓練やプログラムはより明るい未来を約束してくれます。
このパンデミックの影響でシエラレオネの失業問題が緊急性を増す中、国内の若者の雇用機会を増やすために、国内外の機関が行動を起こしています。
国際移住機関による、340 万米ドル（281 万ユーロ）規模の職業訓練プログラムには、2021 年 3月時点で 940 人の参加者が登録しています。
2,000 人の失業中の若者を対象とするこのプログラムでは、農業、道路建設、鉱山機械の修理と操作などに関連する仕事のスキルの習得を目的としています。
同月、国際連合工業開発機関と日本政府は、388 万米ドル（321 万ユーロ）を投じて自動車トレーニングセンターを設立し、10,000人を超えるシエラレオネ人を対象に自動車の修理・整備技術を習得させることで合意しました。
シエラレオネ政府も積極的に関与しており、2010 年には国家青少年委員会を設立し、若者の雇用機会を増やすための戦略的計画と政策の立案を調整しています。
このような背景には、2010 年から 2012 年にかけて、政府がさまざまな政策や制度を通じて、非政府組織（NGO）と協力しながら、雇用の創出、経済発展の構築、持続可能な雇用のエコシステムを支援することにより、若者の失業を緩和するための活動を行ってきたことがあります。
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[The goal of DPDHL Group's GoTeach program is to improve the employability of young people, especially those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.] => DPDHLグループのGoTeachプログラムの目標は、若者、特に社会経済的背景が不利な若者の雇用可能性を向上させることです。
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[On the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, it is not uncommon to see youths looking for work building roads or digging ditches every day.
The young people of the West African country are able and willing, but jobs are scarce. While many have migrated from rural to urban areas to carve out a better life, their efforts have been in vain.
Approximately 70 percent of citizens aged 15 to 35 are unemployed or underemployed — one of the highest rates in Africa and the world. Coupled with a fast-growing population, Sierra Leone now has its hands full with around 800,000 young people looking for jobs.
Many of them lack the skills or education to be employed in a labor market that already offers limited opportunities.
With the Covid-19 pandemic worsening the problem, stakeholders are banding together to help Sierra Leone surmount its unemployment issue.
Backed by the United Nations (UN), the government and private sector companies are driving vocational training and education programs for young Sierra Leoneans to increase their employability and address the domestic demand for skilled jobs.
For many of Sierra Leone’s youth, this marks the promise of a brighter future.
Marginalized and vulnerable
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. They face dim prospects given their low levels of education, which has translated into a 50 percent illiteracy and unskilled rate.
The 11-year civil war had led to the destruction of 1,270 primary schools and 820 secondary, tertiary and vocational schools. Without peace and stability, potential jobs in agriculture and tourism also vanished, underpinning a stark reality. In 2015, 25.8 percent of young women and 13.1 percent of young men had no schooling or training.
Youths make up a third of Sierra Leone’s population of nearly eight million. (Photo: Shutterstock)
The Covid-19 outbreak last year further hindered the country’s road to recovery.
Today, there is an influx of unskilled youth seeking employment in a market where more technical skills are needed to maintain a growing economy. Poor quality of skills is a significant constraint preventing firms from modernizing and improving product quality even as more private sector investments are entering the country.
“Urgent action is therefore required to create employment opportunities with a view to reducing the lingering effects of the marginalization of the country’s young people, who constitute the largest segment of the population,” said former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a report.
Empowering the youth
As the pandemic heightens the urgency of Sierra Leone’s unemployment problem, internal and external agencies are springing into action to boost employment prospects for the country’s young people.
The International Organization for Migration’s US$3.4 million (€2.81 million) vocational training program registered its 940th participant in March 2021. It aims to train 2,000 unemployed young people in relevant work skills such as repairing and operating farming, road construction and mining machinery.
The same month, the UN Industrial Development Organization and Japan’s government signed a US$3.88 million (€3.21 million) agreement to establish automotive training centers, which will equip over 10,000 Sierra Leoneans with automotive repair and maintenance skills.
Sierra Leone’s government is also actively involved, having established the National Youth Commission in 2010 to coordinate strategic planning and policy development to create more youth employment opportunities.
This comes on the back of its collaborative work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 2010 to 2012 to alleviate youth unemployment by creating jobs, building economic development and supporting a sustainable employment ecosystem through various policies and institutions.
RELATED ARTICLESGoTeach: Improving educational opportunity and employabilityThe goal of DPDHL Group's GoTeach program is to improve the employability of young people, especially those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.More recently, international NGO SOS Children’s Villages, in partnership with Deutsche Post DHL Group, launched a Youth Can! Project and GoTeach program for youth employability in Sierra Leone in April 2021.
“At DHL, our purpose is connecting people and improving lives. In some way, the Youth Can! Project, in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, resonates with the aspect of improving lives. We believe that this project will help to transform our youth and give them the impetus to overcome challenges and to be self-reliant,” said Alphonso Pratt, Country Manager, DHL Express Sierra Leone.
The initiative will directly benefit 350 vulnerable young people with skills training, a business start-up for young entrepreneurs, employability and mentorship.
This will help them successfully transition from school to becoming independent and having a decent job — key requisites that will empower youth and set them up for a better, more secure future.] =>
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“At DHL, our purpose is connecting people and improving lives. In some way, the Youth Can! Project, in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, resonates with the aspect of improving lives. We believe that this project will help to transform our youth and give them the impetus to overcome challenges and to be self-reliant,” said Alphonso Pratt, Country Manager, DHL Express Sierra Leone.
The initiative will directly benefit 350 vulnerable young people with skills training, a business start-up for young entrepreneurs, employability and mentorship.
This will help them successfully transition from school to becoming independent and having a decent job — key requisites that will empower youth and set them up for a better, more secure future.
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最近では、NGO である「SOS 子どもの村インターナショナル」が Deutsche Post DHL Group と提携して、「若者はできる！（Youth Can）」プロジェクトと、2021 年 4 月には、若者の雇用可能性を向上させる「GoTeach」プログラムをシエラレオネで開始しました。
「DHL の目的は、人と人をつなぎ、暮らしの向上に寄与することにあります。SOS 子どもの村インターナショナルとの提携関係による、「若者はできる！」プロジェクトは、生活を向上させるという私たちの目的にある意味で共鳴するところがあるのです。このプロジェクトによって、若者たちが変化し、課題を克服して自立するための原動力となることを信じています」と、DHL Express Sierra Leone のカントリーマネージャーである、Alphonso Pratt は述べています。
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昨年の新型コロナウイルス（COVID-19）による感染症の発生は、シエラレオネの復興への道をさらに遠ざけました。
成長する経済を維持するために、より多くの技術スキルが必要とされる市場へ未熟練の若者が雇用を求めて流入しています。シエラレオネへの
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