‘Program aims to empower youth’
The Public Authority for Youth (PAY) said yesterday that the national Muthmer (Fruitful) program goes in line with its vision and goals for empowering youth in all fields. The program mainly depends on participation and sustainable institutional field work. PAY’s representative Dr Fawaz Al-Ajmi told the opening session of a forum on the program the authority launched on Sunday with a host of youth sponsoring official bodies.
The three-day forum, patronized by Minister of Commerce and Industry and Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudhan, aims to instill, and enhance, moral values in students of public schools, he added. The program seeks to encourage youth to create and innovate, unleashing their talents and hidden powers.
In this program, PAY is cooperating with the Ministry of Education, the Interior Ministry, and the Supreme Advisory Committee for the Completion of the Implementation of sharia (Islamic jurisprudence) at the Amiri Diwan, Ajmi noted. This first session of the forum, themed ‘confer with me on my thoughts,’ aims to disseminate the culture of the program among school students, said member of Muthmer higher committee and head of its executive bureau, Rasha Al-Fares. Each participant school chooses one of the program’s 10 projects to carry out, according to its capabilities, she added. It has to be implemented through collective work for distinct outcome by the end of the academic year, she added. Up to 80 schools are taking part in the program. The forum includes training workshops to prepare schools’ operational plans for the next academic year.