Students orientation session in Akkar on job opportunities and “how to build a bright future” || Newspapers (Arabic)

The Future Movement organized in collaboration with the Lebanese Association for Rural Development an orientation session for local students in Akkar entitled “how to build a bright future”.  The aim of this event was to help young women and men graduates in choosing a professional specialization and in order to link up to the local job market in Akkar and better use its local capabilities and human resources.

The representative of the Lebanese Association for Rural Development, Jean Moussa, indicated that “what real development now needs is to halt the exodus from rural areas toward cities and combating poverty and deprivation through education, promoting women’s empowerment and participation in public life, mobilizing the private sector to create new jobs, help farmers in improving and marketing their products, mainstreaming ICT in youth education programme and policies, linking with the international job markets, preserving the ecosystem as well as diversity and supporting eco-tourism in Akkar”.

Moussa presented an overview of strategies to meet such objectives through the development of agricultural development plans in Akkar which has significant potentials such as the availability of land, labor, water, and eco-diversity, all of which can be used to launch agro-processing project as well as start up agricultural extension programmes and securing markets to local farmers. Additional strategies include linking farmers with landowners, providing equipments, material, services and sources of funding, etc...

Moussa suggested transforming Akkar into a technology park through building and operating ICT centres which will train young women and men and provide temporary employment sites as well as link young people to the job market.

Finally, Moussa emphasized the importance of making optimum use of the tourism sector since according to him “Akkar enjoys several tourist-attractive and ecological sites and has a hospitable community as well as wide outreach to the immigrant community from which it can attract investment, funding and in which it can open markets”.

Source: AlMoustakbal