Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Kabul (BNA) Every day thousands people leaving their homes hoping to find work in market but it is usually not easy to find a job.
There are youth who support their families and have to not spare any work and get a mouthful. Hamid 18 fears of unemployment and is concerned on its consequences. He said, at 12, I started to sell plastic bags and polish shoes on the streets because I was the older child of my family and my father was unable to work and feed the family. We lead life in this way. Talking on his suffering, Hamid said, I wished to have had a supporter and I would attend school like other children. But any way I will attend literacy courses and want to be educated. He went on to say, it is good to have private capital but illiteracy and being broken is a big challenge. But any way I make Afs 100 per day during the day I sit sometimes under sun and sometimes under shadow and polish shoes. I become very tired but I have to work to support family otherwise my parents and siblings will be starving. I hope peace and security will prevail Afghanistan and we poor could get a livelihood easily. He added, naturally everybody has a lot of wishes, wants to be rich but I am satisfied with less money. I want to be tolerant and achieve my goals. Some youth commit bad actions like begging, robbery or drugs and create problem to their families or became a burden on the shoulder of society. But I preferred this job on the street, God may help me.
Hamid went on to say, I wish to have a shop because on the pavement shopkeepers prevent and disturb me. So I want to leave sidewalk. I hope all my country’s youth to get rid of unemployment. Latif another youth who have spent many years in neighboring countries and sustained too much hardship and currently he is a vendor on the streets, said I finished high school. I failed to find employment. I had to work as vendor and support my family. We are six in my family and have three children. I wish my children to attend school and be educated. Based on official data, 70pc of Afghanistan population are youth. If investment would be made on them, they would play constructive role in the country’s future.