Hospital Ward 2017 aspirant Samson Gitau has emphasized the need for leaders to involve themselves in different activities in the community in order to reduce crime and drug abuse.
He said that sports were a tool to inspire and motivate children from poor households to overcome poverty and grow into model citizens, adding that it played a big role within local communities and its ability to transform lives.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on Sunday after attending a funds drive in aid of Alex Muya, a young boy from Pilot Estate who is suffering from hernia, Gitau said that he believed in developing local professional-level soccer teams training with a concentration on developing social & life skills as well as sportsmanship.
“The majority of the youth in this ward come from poor backgrounds. Their parents are day-to-day menial workers who do not have the time or the means to follow up on their children’s talents. Most of these youth are unemployed and do not lead with good examples but are very ready and willing to exploit any available opportunity that comes their way. It is for this reason that we as leaders need to open new horizons and introduce the belief that anything is possible,” said Gitau.
He added that it was vital for leaders to sit down with young people and begin planning solutions aimed at creating efficient skills exchanges, functional job-markets for the youth and the sustainable future they would all depend on.
“It is now time to teach our youth that one can dare to dream. A dream that pushes them through obstacles and challenges, a self-belief that they can do it if they worked hard at it. We need to teach them to become responsible, accountable, and dependable,” he said.