Our development initiatives include strengthening the rural agricultural production system. It could be something as simple as teaching farmers better ways to produce and providing access to better seeds from government nurseries, or encouraging them to diversify their crops so they are more conducive to growth in the region and offer higher value. We can introduce them to winner crops.
It could also be by helping set up solar power to pump water for irrigation. Farmers who are early adopters often aggregate other producers and bring them under one roof and become agri-entrepreneurs, enabling transformation in attitudes and behaviour on a larger scale. This, in turn, leads to higher income-generating opportunities for more people within the community.
We have created Yuva Compass or youth hubs in which the youth are offered expertise in starting businesses and providing access to jobs. The centre is manned by a hub coordinator. Young people can come here and get all the necessary support from mapping job opportunities to training in basic book-keeping or using digital payment methods, so they have better overall skills.