The Contribution of Youth Organizations in Community Development in Kaduna North Local Government Area.
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVES OF YOUTH ORGANIZATION
The main objectives of this policy are to prepare the youth adequately for self-fulfilment and the achievement of national goals.
- involving and ensuring the participation of youth in the social, economic and cultural development of Nigeria.
- Inculcating the virtues of patriotism, descriptive selfless service, honesty and leadership in the youth with a view to ensuring peaceful co-existence and a purposeful sense of direction for the nation;
- Providing opportunities for vocational training for schooled and unschooled youth oriented primarily towards self employment and self reliance;
- Evolving and meticulously implementing a systematic programme of early ‘indoctorination” of youth on national interest, security consciousness and international awareness.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
Many believe that youth organizations have an important role in causing positive change in the lives of the Nigerian youth through the different kinds of activities that they organize, such as social, economic political and cultural activities. In the middle age (1000-1400), age was not considered very important. A persons age was just a fact of life, like their height or weight. People were considered infants until age 5 to 7; they were adults. Families had little privacy and everyone lived crowded together, resulting gin constant contact between people of different ages. There was also ongoing contact between people of different classes (e.g. masters and servants). This resulted in many people, from different families, living interdependently. The main function family was to pass on name and property.
By the mid 1800s the concept of adulthood had also changed. People were seen as increasingly separate from each other. With the growth of factories, individuals had access to individual income the choice of becoming more independent. Throughout the 1800’s, as the middle class grew, the individuals became increasingly important. The link between adulthood and independence become progressively more popular throughout the 18th century. (however, it wasn’t until the mid 20th century that achieving independence was seen as the key criteria for adulthood in western culture).
By the mid 19th century, some people began to worry about the number of children who were in adult roles. Laws were passed to stop children being allowed to work. On the hand, this protected children from working long hours in dangerous jobs. But poorer families often had many children, and could not afford to care for them. Many of these children, particularly boys, were sent out to survive on their own. Given that they were not allowed to work, they often had to steal in order to survive. These street children were seen in one of two ways. Either they were lazy and irresponsible, or they were violet and dangerous. Laws were made to try to address this problem. During the 19th century, the concept of youth or adolescence was not widely accepted or seen as a separate stage in life. From the 1500s onwards, some psychologists had talked about adolescence, but there were a variety of interpretations of the concept, and different views on the age at which adolescence ended.
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
In carrying out a research topic of this nature (the role of youth organization in Kaduna North local Government Area of Kaduna state) the researcher went through many processes of collecting necessary date and information that may be useful to study.
RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS
The instrument used for the collection of date for this study were questionnaire and oral interview.
The questionnaire made up of twenty (20) items was divided into four (4) sections A, B, C, and D. SECTION A sought demographic information about the respondents; such a age, sex marital status and qualification.
CHAPTER FOUR
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
FINDINGS
The main aim of the research is to find out “the problems associated with youth organization in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY
The easy has been geared to find out the contribution of youth organizations in community development in kaduna north local government area of Kaduna State.
The study examines youth and society’s views on the effect of youth organization in community development.
The researcher reviewed several studies conducted by eminent scholars on the concepts of community development, the need for youth intervention programme as important components of community development programme.
The study expressed that youth organization positive influence in community development in the society at large. The study also pointed out that it would give our youth opportunity in order not to avoid command activities and cultivate whole some attitude as the achieve their future endeavor.
Finally, the result of the findings indicated that youth organization and also they should have adequate support from the Local government Area of Kaduna State, this will help them to establish healthy relationships and encouragement to engage in self reliant activities in their various communities.
CONCLUSION
Based on the findings of the study the research made the following conclusion:
That the age groups of the respondents age from 25yrs to 40yrs and the youth selected belongs to Islamic, Christian, and traditional religions denominations.
Significantly, the respondents were holders of NCE, Grade II teachers certificate, and degree hiders and their occupations range from civil servants self-employed, to forming.
The result emphasized on the importance of initiating a compressive youth intervention programme and other government agencies where appropriate, to ensure that the youth receive support and advice with the aim or encouraging youth and advice with the aim or encouraging youth participation in community development youth participation in community development activities. This will help to raise the profile of achievement across the state.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the result of this investigation the following recommendations were made.
- Youth organization should be educated and enlightened in their religions, custom, so that they can participate actively should be given a proper enlightened on the roles expected from them to the upbringing of their community society and economically, and also the government should provide qualitative education so that they will know how undertake some community development project.
- Education welfare officer should initiate a comprehensive youth intervention programme in collaboration with other agencies to ensure that youth organization receive the necessary support and advice with the aim of encouraging youth participation in community development activities.
- Social workers should be employed in communities I order to help societies in execution of meaningful project in our various communities.
Youth should also be enlighten on about the danger of ignoring self help activities. Finally, the study recommended that the contribution and the participation of youth organization in community development activities can be achieved through constant enlightenment and mobilizations.
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