 Thank you for keeping us company. We now move to a discussion tonight. Let's talk about youth empowerment. Just like I have mentioned, we are fighting COVID-19 and most of the youth are home. If you remember what happened yesterday, there were some persons, some youth who were involved in vandalizing the Fort Kenya offices. Is that the position of the youths really? Let's get to business right now. I'm speaking to Timodi Intagana, his motivational speaker. Send us your comments or questions to all our social media platforms. I try to find four channels on Instagram, I try to find four channels on Facebook and Instagram. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Hey, it's been a while since I last saw you. I do many saw you. Ah, she saw me, she saw me. No, we've had our youth being misused, we could say. When it comes to dealing with, say, politics, how do you want to make a kutupamaya, how do you want to make a kufanya demonstrations or anything, as in the youth have been found to be the light to it. And I remember in the morning, I was having a conversation where one of the panelists was saying, it's about time the youth wake up. We shouldn't be misused. Now, speaking of COVID-19, how do you think the response of the youth is towards the pandemic? Well, it's a sad reality because youth are the majority of the population. So when it comes to the response of COVID-19, the youth have a very big and huge role to play. Number one, like everyone is expected, we are all expected to obey the guidelines that are set by the government, the World Health Organization. That is not only for the youth, but we are expected to be able to test the waters and the responsibility of every young person is to obey. We can be mask to mask. We can be washamkona, washamkona. So it is even the better. We are all expected to obey the guidelines. But we are all expected to obey the guidelines. So it's the first and the most important responsibility. The youth also have a very huge responsibility when it comes to education. Educating the other part of generation, we have the access to information. So Shumedia, Nasa'i obviously corona, he made a lot of misguided information. Onakutayani, there are a lot of myths. So I think the youth have a huge responsibility when it comes to giving out the right facts and the most accurate information when it comes to how to protect yourself, how to deal with it. So education has a very huge responsibility which also comes with another responsibility of learning because you need to learn in order for you to educate people and life is a learning process. We never stop learning. Someone actually said, you even learn how to die. You never stop learning because life never stops teaching. So it's important to learn. And that is also one of the other things that youth can do. Right now we have a lot of time to make a home, internet available in most places. You need to look for new memes. Yes, that's an honor to me. It means we need to look for new memes to check on what is going on. Which is okay even me, I do that. But it is also important that we take a step further. Google has over 130 courses that are free for learning. And they range from career development, from public speaking, from software development. From the basics of what you need to do as a young person, how you dress, how you speak, how you carry yourself. If you just google digital garage, they offer a wide variety of courses that I think could be very beneficial to a young person right now. I am partaking in several courses right now. They are very short actually, one hour, 40 minutes. So I am going even 30 hours depending on kama kodi in salsa, kama when into a kodi in internet, it is of it too. There are courses that run for even 30 hours. But the point is those resources are there and they are free. They are not charged. You just need your bundles and internet and you are good to go. And you acquire a lot of knowledge. So education is important, learning is important. I always encourage young people to be to love learning. Learning is important. Actually I know that you have mentioned about education. I am looking at the ignorant people in the villages. I have seen people say there is no corona, especially the people in the rural. And we have the youth there who have smartphones, they can access internet, they know what is happening. Yes. And I am guessing, I believe they should be the people telling our parents in the villages, this is corona, this is how corona behaves. You are very right. And that is what I said, the youth have a huge responsibility because they have access to that information. You know? So I am talking to young people, because when I was coming, I learned how to speak to young people. And I told them, I am from Alivia and I will talk to them if you don't know them. And I have interacted with quite a number of young people. Now we are talking to the youth who are in Nairobi. We are talking to the youth and that is a very wrong attitude because this is a reality that is happening to us. Everyone is affected. It is said that everyone is affected, but few are infected. So they affected part of it depending on the degree that you are. It is only matter of the degree. Not that you are not affected. So the youth, you are very right, the youth have a very huge responsibility to demystify those myths and to give the accurate information. Yes. Now when COVID came, everyone was told to stay home. Yes. And of course, this involves even the Vaziti students. They went home. They were home and majority of them, if not all, had free time to do what they could. And I am looking at this particular group of people who abuse drugs. Now they have freedom and they have time. And now they have free will to do what they want. Now, how do you encourage someone? It is not time to have fun as much as you are not schooling or if you are doing online classes, you have so much time for education and that actually maybe we could be speaking of the teenage pregnancy. Yes. That's what you take on this. Yes. Yes. Okay. Now it's very interesting that you mention that because I work with a very, I have a small group of university students whom we mentor and coach in their life processes. And that is also another challenge to the older generation. You know, when you talk about young people, they are not an island. They are in between. They unite with the next generation. So, kuna generation niko ahead that is supposed to offer mentorship and support and guidance to these young people. Parents should be able to offer and to avail these resources to the young people and also keep in track of what is happening. You see now when you are told to stay home, Sivi jana pekiwalika ho. Pia wazazi. And don't the parents should not assume that they are safe for kusawa what a jichunga and what wazima that is not a very right mentality. Even my parents, they refer to their parents who are my grandparents for guidance once in a while. And so it is a chain. It is a chain of again going back to learning. You see. So I believe that the time and that is why I said the issue of having the resources like the Google Digital Garage is even if your online class goes for about two hours or three hours in a day, you can spend another hour learning how to speak in public. You can learn, you can take two or three hours learning how to do software development, web designing and these are things that will help you even in future when we talk about employment issues because you can be able to do something by yourself without necessarily depending on the government or your parents and and that so the issue of time time management is quite key to young people because we have the notion that badotkona times is in vijana I'm only 25, I'm only 20, I'm only 30, life begins at 40. So now I'm not going to waste two or three hours years in Tarikawa too. That is very wrong. Speaking of time, we have this jamama mone alkuwami anza kuhasu alkuwami anza kupangalafia kepoi mingiyana alafu sayindu we are corona in the camp hana job, hana do na alkuwami anza kusaput home. How does this person now get the sense of belonging and knowing the responsibilities ahead sila zima as inila as you kujua acts of the situation? Now that one calls number one for self-acceptance you know when everything was shut down it was not shut down to specific individuals it was shut down to everyone and how you react is very important for me individually pia mimi tu lembo tukaihum and we offer trainings leadership trainings for young people that range from how you grow your relationship with Christ all the way to how you bat your vision how you set your goals for those visions how you lead a goal-oriented lifestyle how you overcome obstacles and finally how you live a life of integrity and you finish well so it is an online program that we offer right now to young people and also to leaders and we do it by Zoom every day from five to six and from seven to eight we have a program that we have designed just to help such people who are wondering now what do I do how what next what is my purpose what is my vision how do I live my purpose and how do I know it in the first place so it is important to know that those resources are there and to ask for the relevant and to the right people one of the things I always tell people ask and be told no rather than assuming that if I ask at an Ibea Bahaj do you yeah so Ibea Bahaj is a two-and-two partner and he is a cashier but you see if you ask him and ask him what Ibea Bahaj is yeah wow now we have a lot of time I will come here for you where you will speak tell the youth something in matters kujibaba na ii corona by the way the first thing you need to know is life miako corona ii jaku gonga pekiako ii na gonga kila mitu and that is an obstacle that we are facing you can either choose to overcome it or each to overcome you so it is important for you rise above overcome the obstacle and be creative in what you do yes all right thank you so much Santa Timo for coming and your idea thank you so much for keeping us company back home he has been my guest at Timurin Tagani motivational speaker I hope you have learnt something and regarding Masiko leta if you are in a position to help please reach out and we can help someone because at the end of the day it doesn't matter how you lived your life but the love that you shared will count in the end coming up next is waimasharekwi the JTS car can read based on color so stay tuned my name is Dereva Hilari I'll be seeing you again next week on Monday enjoy the rest of our programming and good night and blessed week ahead