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Cabinet received an update on the preparations for the 2024 National Youth Day Celebrations, which Honourable Vice President K.C.D. Mohadi presented as Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on State Occasions and National Monuments.
The nation is advised that the National Youth Day Celebrations will be held in Masvingo Province at Mushagashe Youth Vocational Training Centre on Wednesday, 21st February 2024, under the theme, “Positioning Youth Empowerment and Development towards Achieving Vision 2030”.
Preparations for the event are well on course, with adequate logistical arrangements for the mobilisation and transportation of the youths has been finalised.
The National Youth Day is celebrated annually to recognise youths, reflect on their contributions to the country’s development and encourage them to adopt good leadership values by emulating the forebearers who fought for the country’s independence.
The youths constitute 64% of the country’s population and the National Youth Day Celebrations will enable the youths and Government to take stock of the empowerment programmes to date and engage in community-specific change projects.
The event also provides young people with opportunities for ownership, accountability, responsibility and sustainability of initiatives, while ensuring that we leave no place and no one behind.
The objectives of the 2024 National Youth Day Celebrations are as follows: to celebrate the National Youth Day; to identify and unlock the socio-economic potential of youths through building the capacity of young people; to identify and unlock socio-economic opportunities for youths by engaging policymakers in key sectors of the economy to harness the youth dividend towards achievement of Vision 2030; and to increase awareness, commitment and investment in youth development initiatives, programmes and projects.
The event will host an Economic Dialogue, during which a youth representative will make a presentation on issues affecting the youth.
The Economic Dialogue will bring together about 30,000 youths from all provinces of the country, and the President, His Excellency Cde. Dr. E.D. Mnangagwa will be the Guest of Honour. Foreign delegates from South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique and Tanzania are expected to grace the occasion.
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