The Truth About Making an Impact

really nice you have so much passion for young people their growth and their development right why is it so

important to you i think it's very important for young people to develop themselves find their voice because it's not just about their voice being aired today but about shaping the future that they will live in tomorrow The truth of the matter is that young people have been placed in a position of spectators rather than contributions, as if things like policy, development, social change is something that they should wait to participate in.

But the truth of the matter is that decisions being made about education now, being made about development, being made about social development, policy reform, will shape the world that we young people would inherit after these current decision-makers are gone.

So I think it's only fair that people who are going to live with the outcome of the decisions that are being made now deserve a seat at the table to make decisions too.

So how do you...

Like you said, they deserve a seat at the table, but are young people willing

to

be on

the table? Yes, I think...

We hear it a lot that young people are not passionate enough.

Because when we talk about things like this, we often get replies like, oh, it's young people that are not passionate.

But the thing is that if you go out there, you actually see young people.

I know lots of founders of foundations nowadays that are between the age of 20 to 25, 20 to 30, between that age range.

So it's not that they are not passionate.

It's lack of opportunity, lack of mentorship, lack of access, lack of information, and all of that.

Thank you.

I want to give an example.

You know how we, the youth, are always clamoring for change in the government and all of that.

A lot of us are tired.

A lot of us have actually given up, right? What's that one thing you feel like would encourage a young person, again, to pick up themselves and try and make a change in the society they stay in, right? Because, for instance, do not litter the streets, right? Yes.

You don't litter, but you see people litter and you've spoken, you're just tired of trying to correct anybody, right? The government, another example, you try, you voted the last time, the person you voted for, you saw that the person did not get into power, right? And you feel like it was rigged and all of that.

you don't see your own change being impacted, right? Someone gets tired.

People get tired.

Like, oh, I'm done.

I'm not even voting again.