YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND PR SKILLS



Hungry people

Youth unemployment is the unemployment of young people, does not have a job but is actively seeking work. This issue has affected a lot of young people who have qualification, who have matric and those who
didn't finished their matric due to different reasons. Working with a group sometimes its better but in other times its tough. Working with my group members was so interesting, we were working together as a team. Every decision member come up with was supported. Youth unemployment campaign did improve my PR skills a lot, I tend to realize that working with other people teaches you a lot of things, learn different things which is so interesting.


WRITING SKILL

Working with my group members did make me to write different things this element of writing skills develops skills in simple writing and impact writing, which helps build capacity to communicate in written mediums, from email through to proposals and promotional material. I did write a blog post about the issue of unemployment and we also on designing Facebook that will inform young people take up courses that will make them to get a job and what is required from them to do so that it will be easier for them to get the job, since us as a youth we want jobs that will gives us money every time and not things that will help us to get an experience.

MEDIA ENGAGEMENT
On working on this campaign I did see the important of engaging myself on social networks since that will help me in future, and there we meet a lot of professional expect that help us on creating our future career, by that I did involve myself actively on my social network. Me and my group members we create a Facebook page to encourage people that are still at school to seek information while they are still at school, and as for students they should try learner ship and internship programme. Also I need an experience so that will me too.


South Africa's Youth Unemployment


STAKEHOLDER RELATIONSHIP
Our stakeholders was the unemployed youth, from those in schools, varsity students as well as those who have graduated but not having a job. Government was our target audience. This campaign helped me on that when get an organisation to work with I have to know my stakeholders and identified them by names this will help me to resolve their issue they face with. Working with our stakeholders was great I learned new things from them and they learn lot of things from me too.

CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT
Our campaign was to make your move, I believe that youth should seek information on where to go when finished school. Those who are at high institutions should try as early as possible to get learner ship and internships so that they should get experience. Government should try to lower taxes which in return will promote companies to grow and that will lead to job creation. Working together with government will create more jobs for everyone.

FOOD SECURITY AND SOWETO FARMING

SOWETO URBAN FARMING TOUR

About Soweto Urban farming

This is the activity or business for growing crops or animals for food or generating income. Soweto urban farming also is the way of creating and developing job opportunities, teaching youth about the important of farming. When our lecture introduce this chapter(Food security) we were confuse because I did not see the important of those learning since I am not an Agricultural student, but things started changes when meeting Miss Maserane our farmer. 

Working with farmers

Working with Miss Maserane changes the way I did feel when Mrs Benecke introduce this chapter to us, working with her was becoming more interesting every time meeting her and having conversations. Spending time with her made me realize that there are so many opportunities out there and if you are a person you need to like your job and have passion as she does. She is an intelligent women, she love her job and she cannot see herself doing other jobs. Miss Maserame's doing her farming in one of the school at next to Tladi clinic. She started her farming years ago and helped other people from her community to do what she's doing and the youth, but she mentioned that the youth didn't support things like this, even her children.
 

In many ways farmers they sometimes use different fertilizers to grow their crops. Farmers use a lot of chemical fertilizers, pesticides (chemicals that kill bugs), and herbicides (chemicals that kill weeds) simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming. Working with my farmer was so interesting I was gaining more things every time when seeing her. She inspired me like the way she doing thing things. She create her own fertilizer to make her crops grow not wasting money with unnecessary things, she only use money buying crops. We also spend more time with her sharing knowledge and also help her with selling her peri-peri at Lens. She was so grateful for that and people did like her product and wanted more. Others gave us their numbers so that they will be in touch with our farmer.

Engagement in social networks

social media platforms

Nowadays people use social networks which is popular to be updated with early and latest news. Social media also make is easier for everyone to get every information and it save money. Our journey to lens was great because we also find people who owns catering business which are willing to work with our farmer, only to find that this days we use technology, so we came up with the idea of creating Facebook page and the blog to involve our farmer on getting clients so that her business will be successful on doing that I did realize that social media is very important. Alma Maxwell, owner of Outsourced Communication who deals with social media needs for companies, mentioned that students need to ensure that they use social media to their advantage, adding that having their profiles on LinkedIn ensures that they are visible that are looking for potential employees.