IPNEWS: The Catholic Relief Service with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Youth for Peace Ambassador end one-day Youth for peace activity in Caldwell New Georgia Community with Motorcyclists Tricycles and disadvantaged youth commonly known as Zogoes
The one-day Youth for Peace Activity is an initiative that engages young people, community leaders, and government officials within the community against the act of violence across Liberia with the current focus in three (3) Counties including, Montserrado Grand Bassa and Nimba.
Given the overview of the project Madam Mazoe Cartee said the Youth for Peace Project focuses on the development of young people within the community across the country.
She said the Caldwell New Georgia Community project will only focus on motorcyclists, community leaders, and disadvantaged youth commonly known as zogo in the Community or streets.
“This particular Project in your community will focus on motorcyclists, tri-cyclists, community leaders, government officials, and disadvantaged youth commonly known as zoos.”
According to her in the past young people have been used to cause violence within the various communities across Liberia something that has put them under the negative spotlight over the years.
She explained that if the Caldwell New Georgia Community, Montserrado, and Liberia at large are free from violence it will help the Country for better education, health system, and good governance, adding that it also makes citizens achieve their potential dream in Liberia.
In the remake, the community Chairman, Jerboh Botoe, expressed appreciation to the CRS and USAID teams for carrying out such a project that brings together over two hundred young people, community leaders, and government officials in the fight against violence in the community.
Botoe explained that the project is educative and will help some disadvantaged youth motorcyclist’s tri-cyclists who are involved in youth violence in the streets to leave and stop the violence within the community.
According to him the uniqueness and educative part of the project will allow young to be violence-free in the streets and in their various communities across the country.
On her part, on behalf of the Women’s group in the community, Madam Metah Johnson lauded the Catholic Relief Service and United States Agency for International Development and partners for the program that will help them, and their children avoid violence and be friends in the community to achieve peace.
She expressed hope that they as community leaders and young people across the country learned from the project and avoid violence adding that mothers and fathers within the various communities across the country at the time can support their children and family instigating violence in the streets.
Also speaking, Abraham Zantoe Community Youth Chairman new Georgia Community, thanked the CRS and USAID for conducting such an initiative that provides education and eradicates acts of violence within the community.
Zantoe used the occasion to call on the CRS team to continue the project across the country stressing that it will help young people to stop violence in their communities and street.
He, however, urged young people to not allow themselves to be used by politicians, political parties, and individuals to cause instability in the country anymore especially motorcyclists and riders adding that are currently one factor that causes violence in the streets on a daily basis. Writes Tarsiah Merfee
