Luanda - Angolan minister of Youth and Sports Palmira Barbosa has called for permanent promotion of policies aimed at development of young people in the member states of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
Palmira Barbosa defended, among the actions, the training, creation of job and ensuring social inclusion, while delivering her online speech at a meeting of the Youth ministers of the ICGLR on Tuesday.
She explained that there are some ongoing programmes and projects in the community that have already been making their effects, being, however, insufficient, since young people are the majority in the member countries.
"There are still few feasible projects that directly reach young people, and it is necessary to continue the existing ones and create new ones," Barbosa said.
The minister underlined that the greater the impact these projects have on the lives of youths and on social policies, the less problems of security, insurgency and other ills will occur in the countries of the region.
The ICGLR comprises Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic (CAR), Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda.
