Afghanistan has a population of 60 percent young people, but these young people are unemployed and waiting for the reopening of schools and universities.
In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly designated July 15 as World Youth Skills Day.
This day is celebrated all over the world, while in Afghanistan, young people, especially women and girls, are deprived of the right to education, work, and even personal and social freedoms. These are considered to be among the factors that cast a shadow on the skills training of the youth of this country and took permission from them to grow and progress.
After the Taliban came to power and closed the doors of schools and universities to girls, a large number of students turned to learning new skills. But the Taliban deprived these young people of this opportunity and limited them as much as they could by imposing arbitrary laws.
Tamanna, under the pseudonym, who enrolled in the painting school after the schools and educational centres were closed, says: “After the Taliban did not allow us to go to school, I decided to go to the painting workshop to learn a new skill.” And to be busy there with my friends so that I can deal with these difficult days. But not a week passed when the Taliban came and closed this painting school as well.”
Meanwhile, the American Embassy in Kabul wrote on its Twitter page that Washington will continue to support young people in Afghanistan to increase their skills.
The United Nations has also said in connection with the 15th of July (World Youth Skills Day) that during 2022, 73 million young people were unemployed around the world.
Freshta Askari
