G.James

We have a crisis on our hands. here are a few things I think we can do to mitigate a disaster waiting to happen and get more boys off the streets before they complete the cycle of thuggery and ultimately become a liability to society : 1. Fix the deplorable state of education in public secondary schools in rural communities.(This should be treated as a national emergency) 2. Design a new foster care system 3. Privatize correctional homes and build more shelter homes with effective management. 4. Mentorship for teenage boys. Adopt a teenager on your street and give them an hour of your time weekly. If you don’t, they may become yahoo boys or end up trying to survive on the streets. It’s a consequence of extreme poverty and there’s nothing you can do about it if you don’t fill that gap. nature abhors vacuum. 5. Provide an easy entry point to empowerment for the boys that can help them earn a living. anything that’s too complicated won’t work. 80% reason why there’s a proliferation of kids on the streets is due to broken homes and polygamy underpinned by poverty. The more families fall into extreme poverty, the more boys end up on the streets. The problems we see now is nothing compared to what’s coming. The next breakdown of law and order will affect all of us.

These things are very complicated and require concerted effort to see it through to the very end. I take great detail in sharing the work we do on social media not for the applause,but in hopes that it maybe inspires others to do/support the same causes within their capacity.