We use to know an old man who had a farmland in a remote village; where we went to serve the nation during National Youths Service Corp. That man surely needs a hand to operate his big farm. He needs someone to move his Agribusiness onto another level. He is truly an illiterate. He is obviously going to be suspicious of us. May be we have come to take his means of livelihood away from him. Just may be we came to steal his farm through our big grammar.
But wait a second...what if we humbly go to earn his trust? What if some of us decide to step outside our comfort zones, step down into his world and join that old man in his venture of building a means of livelihood for more than just one family but for a whole community. That man has a farmland but his frail body is too weak to cultivate it alone. What if we agree with him to get fed for free while we in turn give our assistance in terms of knowledge, expertise, human capacity and more? I am just wondering if we will have this great number of unemployed university Graduates in our population if we start taking some radical steps!
Okay, I can see you squeezing face already. I don’t have any clue about farming and I don’t know anybody by the name: Old Man living in any village who practise such Agribusiness. Besides, i can not go to live in any village. I understand. All I am talking about is that you look around you. May be there is a Tailoring center with a sewing Mistress on your Street, or there is a Food Canteen with dilapidated structure. Can you see any Auto-Mechanic without helping hands...Okay. You may try to go humbly, submit yourself to this bunch of illiterates! Yes! You mean i should become an Apprentice, No way!
Well.. may be this might be one of the ways you can start adding values to other people`s businesses. They will in turn show you how they do what they do in order to acquire some handy skills that can help you make a living. May be…just may be! We might cross some boundaries into capacity building! Its an hard, but the only way to survival. I am talking about Survival Strategies 101 for Fresh Graduates who have been waiting for a job for the past five years! I am talking about pragmatic step towards skill acquisition for poverty reduction.
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