Unemployment happens to be one of the most devastating problems affecting not only the people of Starehe but Kenyans in general. Lacking the opportunity to earn an honest and sustainable living is a major contributor to the increase in social ills among our society.

It is worth noting that Kenyans are a hard working people with great abilities but suffer from opportunity deficiency. It is my role as a leader to create these opportunities for our people by implementing policies that are centered on development. The following points depicts how unemployment negatively affects our society:

I plan to continue in my pursuit for a better more developed Starehe by implementing a people oriented strategy especially amongst the youth to fight unemployment.

Solutions to Rampant Unemployment:

The youth need to be empowered not only to come up with youth groups, but also conveniently register them and assist the development purposes and constructive development amongst their communities.

Create a general pool of funds to cater for the youth training and development program by sourcing for funds from reputable organizations both locally and internationally. I will endeavor to put all the resources available to me to achieve this goal.

Provision of technical management for the youth groups in conjunction with civil society and private sector participants.

Develop systems by continuously embracing technology that will ensure sustainability of the youth groups and development.

Our girls have to be enlightened on their rights and abilities to succeed in a male dominated world. We have to create awareness and encouragement programs to reach out to the young girls during their most sensitive early teenage years.

Teach and equip women in business management and how to start businesses whether small, medium or large scale. This will also include young women.

Women can as well be good managers and they should be encouraged to venture into businesses.

The activities that our people can constructively get involved in are countless and only bound by their imagination and the efforts we put in to create opportunities for them.