We recognize that one of the consequences of youth unemployment is poverty, which has been proven to lead to various other social problems including engagement in promiscuous behaviors such as petty theft, armed robbery, drug abuse, and unsafe sex. By identifying the specific employment problems in our country, we can begin also to target the specific needs. For example, we realize that while there are many possibilities for self-employment, there is a lack of access to the capital and skills necessary to create such opportunities.
Tigray youth empowerment solutions (TYES) hope that poor countries, like Ethiopia, have an opportunity to create the conditions necessary to increase the number of youth involved in gainful employment. TYES together with other stockholders would like to sit together to highlight the problems, and then we will be able to find workable and sustainable solutions.