Ehud Gachugu, project director of the Ajira Digital and Youth Employment initiative affiliated with Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), said that investing in technology start-ups owned by the youth will boost economic growth, food security, and disease control including climate resilience.
Kenya calls for tapping into the ingenuity of this demographic and realizing a sustainability agenda as the world celebrates the International Youth Day 2021 Thursday, with the theme featuring “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health.”
According to Gachugu, targeted investments in youth-owned green enterprises could provide a long-term solution to the climate crisis, hunger, and malnutrition that has escalated amid pandemic disruptions. He proposed the provision of direct grants and concessional lending to start-ups owned by the youth that are addressing economic, social and ecological disruptions linked to the pandemic.
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