Youth Development Strategies

 Community Development Initiative.


The state of a certained society, feeling no doubts, been confident, helpful, absolute encouragements and provision of special opportunities for a disadvantage group to make or become different in Culture, Economic, Social, and Spiritual, in their fields of endeavors is the quest of every well-meaning persons living in their respective

Community yearns to see and feel.

Fostering Growth and Sustainable Development can be thought of, as responsible development that meets today’s needs without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet the needs of tomorrow. Central to the idea of Sustainable Development is that, the urgent survival needs for the worlds poor should be the first priority , while keeping in mind that there are limitations, if future environmental consequences that need to be balanced in order to adequately plan for sustainable development, we first need to see the world as a system which connects both space and time.

Initiating a project to create Positive Change in my Environment thereby fostering Sustainable Development in my community has always been my topmost priority as an aspiring Social Entrepreneur and a Community Organizer, been a Social Entrepreneur needs that one possess the requisite innovations, and passion to provide solutions to society’s most pressing problems by persistently tacking major social issues and offering new ideas for wide scale change, rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors.

Fostering Positive and Sustainable Development needs practical addressing of social problems by changing the system, spreading the solutions and persuading the entire societies to take new leap.
The high sense of Volunteerism is my hallmark, which I consider a very cardinal tool for me to be a mass recruiter of my peers local change makers, and also set standards by living an exemplary life, so as to become a role model, providing that citizens who channel their passions into action can do almost anything.

However, positive change and sustainable development cannot be realized without relative Peace,
The greatest threat that the human race has ever faced still remains to live in a world free of the threat of violence. Violence is not restricted to the times of war. It exists everywhere, in homes, schools and communities, where there is injustice there is conflict.


Conflict is generally classified in terms of both violent and non-violent conflict. violent conflict is generally associated with the use of force as a means to an end, while non-violent conflict usually involves peaceful negotiations between conflicting groups in order to work towards a compatible goal or resolution, over time non-violent conflicts can erupt into direct force if a reasonable compromise is not reached, this is a menace bedeviling my community among my contemporaries.

 This I wish to address by collaborating with opinion leaders and all stakeholders to set up a Youth-friendly-Service center (Career Resource Center) stocked with all the necessary tools where youth would be trained in productive entrepreneurial skills so as to unearth their hidden talent, and also enhance their capacity through the culture of reading, research and opportunity search from the resources available. This in effect will curb unemployment and harsh economic predicaments facing the youth and the entire community.

Much of the violence in my society stems from an oppressive social system of power that reinforces differences between conflicting groups and allows one group to have power or privilege over another group. I will also work directly with other grass root communities to counter conflict with preventive strategies through massive Educational campaigns as well as support services for those recovering from violence. This I believe would be responsible, thus creating an enabling environment in promotion of the culture of Peace, Justice, Good Governance and resolve differences without resorting to conflict.

Furthermore, I believe that moral decadence has contributed to our societal problems, and the only way to come out of this canker is by upholding tight our cultural values by adhering to our traditional customs and norms which encompasses Intellectual, Spiritual, Literature, lifestyle and moral values, which is undoubtedly a unifying force.

 To this end I would establish Dancing and Musical troupe in my community, mobilize the youth to perform regularly at the community ceremonies, to promote our dance, music, fashion, to the outside world and also bring us some income to sustain our livelihood, this will also change our social behavior thus saving us from Cultural imperialism which have a negative influence on us. Sustainable living will protect resources and help us live and enjoy life for the future generation.

Summarily, positive environment goes hand-in-hand with human rights and economic justice, a culture of peace and sustainable development cannot be built without an understanding of how deeply all of these issues are interwoven.

Role of Science in Building a Better World

 Role of Science in Building a Better World

Case Study for Africa :


Global change is creating enormous challenges for humanity. The world's population is expected to grow from nearly 6 billion today to 8.5 billion by the year 2025. Global energy requirements will continue to increase. The newly industrialized countries of Asia and Latin America are experiencing very rapid economic growth that is bringing modern society's environmental problems, including air and water pollution and waste problems, to wider areas of the globe.

The ecological problems caused by human economic activity are worsening and taking on global dimensions. Climate change, ozone-layer depletion, and loss of forest cover are important examples. At the same time, social conditions continue to worsen in many developing countries. It is estimated that more than 1 billion people now live in poverty without sufficient food, adequate educational opportunities, or any possibility of political participation.

Although financial and economic markets are becoming more and more interconnected and we like to think in terms of a global village efforts to enshrine environmental protection and development as the common task and responsibility of all countries have just begun to make headway.

The key aim for the 21st century is sustainable development through modern science, which the international community embraced at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Sustainable development seeks to reconcile environmental protection and development; it means nothing more than using resources no faster than they can regenerate themselves, and releasing pollutants to no greater extent than natural resources can assimilate them.

If we are to move toward sustainable development, the industrialized countries will have to accept special responsibility not only because of their past ecological sins, but also because of their present technological know-how and financial resources. Nonetheless, one must keep in mind that sustainable production and consumption involve not merely technical progress, but also cultural patterns of individual behavior and values comes to bear in this process.

The key is to serve the traditional link between economic growth and the consumption of resources, which increasingly threatens the natural basis for life and the preservation of natural and landscape diversity.

There are several possible ways to achieve environmental compatibility in lifestyles and economies. Technical and scientific innovations provide excellent prospects for environmental protection. Contemporary in this 21st  century, industrial society is becoming a knowledge-based society. It is vital that we use our growing knowledge and capabilities responsibly, and that we use them in the interest of environmentally appropriate development. Science must play an important role in the pursuit of sustainable development.

The kind of science and technology needed for realizing a more equitable, prosperous and sustainable world for all, I believe is energy and its humane usage by global population, the key technologies of sustainable development include new energy and propulsion technologies that will help reduce emissions of climate-damaging greenhouse gases.

Simply to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations at twice their postindustrial levels, the world will also have to reduce current global greenhouse emissions by over 50%.. Achieving this goal involves focusing on improved thermal insulation in buildings, on the use of heat/power co-generation, and on efficient support for the use of renewable energies.

Currently the most progress is found in the area of wind energy; in the medium term, the use of solar energy, with photo-voltaic technology, will continue to grow in significance. An honest consideration of our options indicates that we cannot afford to discontinue peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Finally, my vision for the future of science are enormous but cardinal among them is that of a Biotechnology, biotechnology I believe would bring important advances in medical diagnosis and therapy, in solving food problems, in energy saving, in environmentally compatible industrial and agricultural production, and in specially targeted environmental protection projects.

Genetically altered microorganisms can break down a wide range of pollutants by being used, for example, in bio-filters and waste water-treatment facilities, and in the clean-up of polluted sites. Genetically modified organisms can also alleviate environmental burdens by reducing the need for pesticides, fertilizers, and medications.

Indeed I would also conduct a research and in-depth studies on the sustainability of this area of science, as strategic aim, involves optimizing the interactions between nature, society, and the economy, in accordance with ecological criteria.

However, political leaders and scientists alike face the challenge of recognizing inter-relationships and interactions between ecological, economic, and social factors and taking account of these factors when seeking solution strategies.

In conclusion, to meet this challenge, decision-makers require inter-disciplinary approaches and strategies that cut across political lines. Environmental science discussions must become more objective, and this must include, especially, debates about the risks of new technologies, which are often ideologically charged. In light of the complex issues involved in sustainable development, we need clearer standards for orienting and assessing our environmental policies. In this context I consider the current work on indicator models as a means to assess and monitor the success of sustainability strategies, to be of great importance for positive advancements of societies and humanity .

Fraud "Kalabule" in Senior High School Placement in Ghana.

Kalabule "Fraud" in Senior High School Placement in Ghana.

It is very repulsive to note how Ghanaian parents and prospective senior high school SHS hopefuls/candidates suffer irresponsible technological/ institutional failure and gross incompetence of our educational officers, this appalling blight in the recent years so called computerized placement system into SHS, in this day and age that every child especially girls are encouraged to go to school in order to curb street-ism, and other social vice alike and to produce inventive and industrious human resource to salvage our ailing economy.

 It is however sad to note that Ghana is reneging on this principles and responsibilities, to this end fundamental right to education of children is trample, usurpers and unscrupulous personage have taken advantage of the system failure and have coronet themselves as SHS placement agents and are extorting scarce monies from gullible and desperate candidates and their parents on the pretext of securing them admission into SHS, it is really sad to see how parents and their wards mostly girls get frustrated and humiliated at the various offices of the GES around the country.

In a nutshell , our system is very unjust and unfair to the larger population government institutional staff are reneging on duties they are mandated to do by the constitution, that has made our system so putrid in such a way that one has to know a big man some where before you succeed in your endeavor, our fundamental rights don’t matter any longer, the earlier this shame is remedy the better because this precedence is nurturing the ground for aggressive public anger and resistance any time some if the right things are not done

In my case through some so called big man I know i succeeded in attaining an admission for my kid sister, though am quiet relief with that, I remain concern and sympathetic to many who do not have my kind of connection or know any big man in any set up, meanwhile education is an inalienable fundamental basic right of every citizen (child) especially girls of every civilized country which Ghana is not exclusive, indeed SHS is the twilight of every Child career so far as education is concern not even to talk of a quality one.

I think is about time our institution resurrect from COMA and commence effective work in the interest of the citizenry, I urge the Ghana education service, west African examination council, ministry of education, youth, social welfare and women’s and children’s affairs, to give a second thought to the reckless technological failure (Computerize Placement System) and live up to their constitutional duties in offering reasonable and responsible service to the tax paying public, which I believe is prerequisite to nation building as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goals