Save the Children Zimbabwe has conducted garment-construction training for ten youths in Beitbridge and Matobo provinces.

Funded by the Coca Cola Foundation, Save the Children also gave out startup kits such as sewing machines, fabric, nylon threads and garment irons to the participants.

The organisation, in a Twitter post, noted that the project is expected to help the participants become financially independent.

‘This project will empower about 3,800 youths in Beitbridge and Matobo to start income-generating projects’, Save the Children Zimbabwe tweeted.

World Bank 2019 data puts the youth unemployment rate in the southern African country at 27.5 percent.

The African Development Bank (AfDB), in a 2016 reports, noted that while ten million to 12 million youths enter the workforce in Africa each year, only three million formal jobs are created annually.

Development Diaries had reported that the government of Zimbabwe received a grant from the African Development Fund (ADF) to finance the Sustainable Enterprise Development for Women and Youth (SEDWY).

Photo source: Save the Children Zimbabwe