Escaping Poverty, The Challenges of IGBO YOUTH and The Social Media Effects.

About 90% of our youths can relate to this topic, Poverty and how to escape its dark tunnel.

If your father does not have a company that will absorb you after graduation or has a political clout and influence to assist you with job even as a Personal Assistant to a Special Adviser to the government then you are within the perimeters of this subject.

In Igbo land today, university education is the norm, unlike in the past when after primary school or secondary school parents sends their children to apprenticeship in different lines of business and after 6 years of serving their master they are given seed funding  to startup their own from their Oga, this was how the self enterprising of Igbo people started. We help ourselves.

Something became very disturbing, the few who were education wangle in poverty while the uneducated ones were celebrated and very rich, but approaching retirement the educated ones who has gradually climbed the corporate ladder becomes the captains of different government agencies suddenly their wealth Booms!!!

As an Igbo man who believes that we must survive,  we tilted our ship to education, this is how the youths got trapped in poverty.

Unemployment sets in and everybody begins to find a means out but its never easy because their are lot of persons in the tunnel all trying to come out together but its too hard.

While others engage in political thuggery, some gets into crime then few others keeps submitting CVs in all the company in the country with hope of an interview which they will never get, until maybe a family friend asked them to come become a manager in their small business with peanuts as salary.

Today the advent of internet and social media has helped in reducing the monstrous effects of unemployment and poverty among the youths, though they are still unemployed but once in a while some political figures may call for social media chat that's it, they get invited after the chat they get paid. I can tell you that many youths survive with that today.

The latest trend today is SA on New Media, Media Directors, Bloggers these guys are really living better than some civil servants, though they may not be fully employed but their income in a month put together will leave you jaw dropped.

Social media has helped many persons and still helping but the best method out from poverty is self employment. 

Skill up, sell something, create value and make money. These are  the core components of Making money in this harsh economic weather.

Find a Problem - Solve it - Make Money!

To be continued.

Okaka The Voice of The IGBO Youths
email: okakaonline@gmail.com