Vic Falls youths launch new digital platform
YOUNG people in Victoria Falls marked the National Youth Day celebrations in style by launching a digital platform that will help create a database for all skilled and unskilled youth to be able to access opportunities.
The National Youth Day main celebrations were held at Mushagashe Vocational Training Centre in Masvingo on Wednesday last week where President Mnangagwa delivered the keynote address.
Thousands of youths from the country’s 10 provinces attended the event under the theme: “Positioning Youth Empowerment and Development Towards Achieving Vision 2030”.
Celebrated every February 21, the national holiday is the late former President Robert Mugabe’s birthday and seeks to honour his legacy and encourage youths to adopt sound leadership values by emulating the ethos espoused by founding national leaders.
In Victoria Falls, a group of 31 youths used the day to launch Amathuba Skills Bank, a platform they initiated under Amathuba Creators, a company that has been registered to give services for events and entertainment, housing and property development and commercial communication to youths between the ages of 15 and 40 years in Victoria Falls.
Amathuba Creators was born as a brainchild of a local youth, Mr Glen Dumolwayo Ncube from Mkhosana suburb, who visited the only public library in the city. He failed to find what he wanted because of lack of internet services as the library only focuses on lending out old reading books. He saw the need to come up with a platform that could use artificial intelligence to address modern society needs.
Mr Ncube invited young people in Victoria Falls, but only 31 from Mkhosana showed interest and they registered Amathuba Creators, which gave birth to Amathuba Skill Bank that was launched on Wednesday.
They invited captains of industry and speakers were Mr Arnold Musonza, Mrs Barbara Murasiranwa-Hughes, Mr Thulani Nkala, Mr Elvis Zinyemba, Mr Brian Moyo and others. The motivation behind Amathuba Creators was to create opportunities and put them into existence.
In an interview after the launch, Amathuba chair Mr Funny Nyoni said they desired to work with the Government to identify opportunities for young people, create job opportunities for them and ensure they live in a safe space away from the life of drug and substance abuse and crime.
“This is a digital platform and web-based database, which embodies the spirit of innovation in which we are saying it is a testimony of resilience of young people of Victoria Falls and Zimbabwe in general,” he said.
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