President William Ruto’s daughter Charlene Ruto has caused a stir online after claiming that youths should stop being lazy and create opportunities for themselves.
Speaking on an interview on Citizen TV, said that the lack of job opportunities for young people in the country can only be solved by the youth creating opportunities for themselves.
According to Charlene Ruto, youths should step up and find their own footing in whatever they’re passionate about instead of waiting around for non-existent help.
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“Through our organizations, if maybe we were to employ as many people as people, because I cannot tell you the amount of CVs on my desk and the requests for jobs, maybe we would employ 3,000 young people. It is a drop in the ocean, we are 70% of the over 50 million population of Kenya.”
The first daughter urged young people not to sit around idly but rather to get out of their comfort zones and align themselves with the proper networks and opportunities.
“You are passionate about something, don’t give up on that. Reach out to us, and give us your idea. I give a listening ear to somebody who has already started something and I can see where they are going and I can put something in other than somebody who is like ‘give me a job’…which job?”
Charlene Ruto who is the patron of the Smachs Foundation told the youth to pursue and embrace their passions rather than seek paid jobs, which she says may not be forthcoming.
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“But if you tell me that ‘I’m passionate about tree planting or beekeeping, could you come to visit my farm or could you help me get a piece of land somewhere, I want to expand’. these are the young people we’re going to give a listening ear to.”