YOUNG PEOPLE: CHALLENGES AND SOCIAL VICES

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In Nigeria and other African countries, young people are faced with challenges that affect their mental health on a daily basis.

As a result of poverty and other economic factors affecting the continent, mental health issues, toxic work environment, societal pressure are some of those things young people are faced with on a daily basis.

There are so many challenges facing a young African on a daily basis, ranging from feeding to clothing, shelter and other necessities.

A good number of the African population live in abject poverty and find it difficult to feed, have a proper shelter, and wear good clothes.

These and many more are the issues that affect our young people daily and pose as a toll to their mental health.

In the light of this, most young people are the bread winners of their families, as they are looked upon to carter for their loved ones despite how little they earn.

At age 14 or even 13, most young people are hustling to make sure there is food on the table.

They subject themselves to much pressure to put a smile on the faces of those who they left at home, and most times neglect their mental health and happiness.

Some of them do menial jobs with little or no pay at the end of the day, but always find a way to make sure there is food on the table.

These pressures have led some of them into doing and indulging in illegal activities, just to make sure they still provide and survive.

Survival of the fittest can easily be said, but in reality, it is something so terrible to experience, and these have led some of this young people to activities such as (drug trafficking, human trafficking, sex trade, kidnapping, armed robbery, ballot box snatchers) and other social vices that is affecting the society’s peace and pose as security threats.

When you are opportune to speak with these youths, some of them are of the opinion that the governments don’t know if they exist and have no value for them.

Henceforth, most find a way to survive or die with their loved ones of hunger.

This is why we must keep calling for a media campaign on social change, to let these people know they are loved (government or no government) and draw the governments attention to them.

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