05 Dec 2016

The director of #ishallnotforget movement, Ms Lembi Mmereki, has encouraged youth to use social media to initiate positive ideas.

Ms Mmereki said the youth should not use social media as a platform for flinging frustrations and insults.

Speaking recently at Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) conference in Francistown, Ms Mmereki said the youth were faced with challenges of unemployment therefore they should be able to come up with interventions.

Ms Mmereki implored YWCA to find relevance amongst a population of young women whose challenges were different from those of 20 years ago.

She said today young people were battling with challenges of unlawful drugs that not so long ago were not imaged to make it to their shores, therefore encouraged the need to attract and encourage the youth to take centre stage and claim leadership roles with the YWCA.

She also said as they valued the wisdom and experience of the elders for sustainability of the organisation, saying the vision of a young woman must guide their goals therefore implored the current leaders to be open to change, to deconstruct strategies and be less conservative in their approach to issues and embrace the youth in all of their brashness, haste, hunger and hastags.

Ms Mmereki also condemned misappropriation of funds and dubious procurement practices that continue to plague Non-Governmental organisations (NGO) hence killing the credibility of otherwise noble causes. 

She called on the stakeholders to continue to volunteer their time and resource towards charitable causes and other community advancement initiatives to bring comfort and reconstruct the society.

For his part Somerset East councillor Joe Gunda encouraged stakeholders to engage community leaders as well as  informing the community about their organisation as most of the youth did not know about them. ENDS