Thread:Defining Youth (11)

Wilson J Mbongwe

Once more am please to be one of the IPYET 2011 participante. My work at the Department of Youth includes coordination of the Youth Development Fund. The fund is aimed at youth entrepreneurship development.

The Botswana National Youth council of 2011 define youth a young person between the age of 15 to 35years of age. in my view, a youth should defined as a stage of transition from childhood to adulthood guided by the norms and value of a particular community or as derected by the statutes of a country, otherwise it would diffucult to make a distention. Youth like anyother person differ in may respect be attitude, behaviour etc and as such need to be guided during the transition stage at least to comform to the societal expectations.