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The Role Of Youths In Community Development
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0INTRODUCTION
The aim of rural development is to get
rid of poverty. Youth involvement in community development programme
has been as long as man’s existence. Their contribution towards
community development in a given area like Oredo Local Government has
much to be desired. It is generally accepted in most developing
countries like Nigeria, that government alone cannot develop all the
rural communities as at when due. Apart from leadership, there are other
things that are against the attainment of a meaningful, progressive and
just society that we have been longing for but failed to respond
decisively. Although these are few books that cover the role of youth in
community development or nation building. This study will treat all
aspects of the topic as evidence to show whether or not youths played
effective contributive role in the development of rural areas Oredo
Local Government is not an exception, this is because they need the help
or support of the youths to assist the nation in achieving self
sufficiency in areas like food production and the realization of
structural transformation of the Agricultural sector (Doorbus, 2001).
It
is a common thing that “youths are the leaders of tomorrowâ€, it could
therefore be seen that the contributions of youths to rural development
is very important, hence people look up to the youths for active
leadership, self reliance, honesty, selfless service, industrial
knowledge, patriotism and discipline. Generally, youths constitute about
2/3 (two-third) of the active population, by youth we mean those young
active and powerful or dynamic people in the society under the ages of
forty. They have some qualities, which includes responsibility to
challenges (Oadire, 2010).
The community does show that government
alone cannot provide all the development needed by themselves,, as a
result the communities are to mobilize themselves by using the resources
at their disposal to provide amenities through self-help and popular
participation; we cannot over emphasize the effect of youth class or
cooperative organization in carrying out such a task, no wonder BEJA
says “there is hope that our country will still grow and survive into a
great nation despite the ills of our times and that hope is in the
youthsâ€.
The researcher will attempt to state the energetic nature of
youth class in Oredo Local Government. The hope of the rural
communities is to have access to the provision of the basic social
amenities. But the way of achieving this hope cannot be guaranteed by
the government alone, but through the help or contribution of the rural
developers, moreover no community should see rural development as the
sole responsibility of the community development officers, in order not
to experience law level development, unemployment, starvation and poor
health care, government can no longer or finds it difficult to satisfy
all these needs due to the enormity of the task on her, hence from time
immemorial, youths have been assisting the elders in the development of
their areas. Their participation is very essential and this further
boosts national development.
1.1BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
THE
PEOPLE: Majority of the people that stay within Oredo Local Government
area are from Edo (Bini), though there are people from other parts of
the State being among the indigenes. The number of people residing there
is relatively more compared to other local government due to
development that has come to the place.
The culture of the people is
rich and unadulterated, which has its origin in Edo (Bini). It has its
statutes, morals, beliefs and values, social, religious and political
institution. There are also ancestral cults to which every person is
born into; to deny them is to deny one’s birth right and citizenship.
Their cultural values also affect their marriage, ceremonies, new yam
festivals, burial ceremonies and their cultural dances.
Their main
occupation they practice is farming and palm wine tapping, crops grown
there includes yam, groundnut, etc. Though there are many white-colar
jobs due to development of the area but their main occupation is
farming.
The Youth: The youth have a storage formation where they
come together and talk on pressing issues concerning the community. They
help in keeping the law of the land and try to influence the decision
of the leaders through their reactions.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study is a determination of the level of participation of youth in community development in Oredo Local Government Area. The main objectives of the study were to examine the extent to which the youth have and can still contribute their strength meaningfully to the development of their communities. Also the study tried to find out the modalities of mobilizing the youths to take part actively in community self-help. Philosophy which was helped to reduce the high rate of youth’s migrati ... Continue reading---
