imagine, a modern Zambia where all citizens, no matter how rich or poor, young or old, are active participants in the development of a more productive, inclusive, equitable society? A Zambia where the government takes a proactive role in empowering the vulnerable, boosting production of small-scale farmers and small business developers alike? A Zambia were the poor, destitute, including the parent
s caring for HIV/AIDS Orphans, vulnerable children, the chronically ill, poor persons with disabilities, are embraced by the government through predictable welfare transfers. And a Zambia where no vulnerable person is excluded from accessing basic social services, especially health care services and education. A Zambia where children grow with future hopes of taking up self-employment if being employed proves futile. Believe it or not, this vision of a better Zambia is not just an idealistic dream of the Mazabuka youth entrepreneur initiative, it is Government’s wish as well. It is for this reason that the Youth Empowerment Scheme (Y.E.S) project is developed to assist parents plan their children’s employment needs soon as they are born using a highly innovative systems. The Y.E.S is a project is aimed at empowering pupils in schools with skills and capital to enable them take up self-employment as an alternative approach to unemployment the problem current affecting developing countries worldwide. Unlike the NATIONAL PENSION SCHEME AUTHORITY (NAPSA), Y.E.S will make use of child aspect of consuming capability to raise money for only those that graduate in grade 12 to be trained in skills and given startup capital of not less than K4, 380 per annum.Each year thousand of school leavers join the society without a skill and capital to take up self employment as employment continues to be a serious problem in Zambia. Parents withdraw 80% of their support to children once they graduate and expose them to look for jobs where there is 1/ 10 probability.
