Silatech focuses on youth employment opportunities

A delegation from Qatar-based Silatech, visited Yemen on Saturday. The delegates’ members visited different organizations and finance corporations that assist and support Yemen’s youth.
 
The delegates spent time with the Young Leadership Development Foundation (YLDF), al-Amal Bank, a community college and several other foundations.
 
The delegates expressed their admiration of the progress of Khadija program, which aims to create new capitals and new business opportunities. They also asked about the procedures, regulations and terms of the program. “It’s great to see an idea move from paper into reality,” said Justin Sykes, a manager at Silatech. It’s great to see Yemeni youth participate in the program and have an impact on their life, and I think the Yemeni youth represent a module for youth,” he added.
 
Pawan Patil, the Chief Economist at Silatech, assured that the Silatech initiative would continue to strive for the development of progressing youth in the Arab world. “It is important to raise the scale from one hundred, two hundred, into one thousand and two thousand,” said Patil.
 
During the visit, the delegates met the youth participating in the Khadija program, and listened to their complaints, challenges and ideas. The delegates also gave some advices and comments to the youth such as the naming of their projects, and the scale of the business.
 
The Khadija project is a program that was sponsored by Silatech and the Small & Micro Enterprise Promotion Services (SMEPS). It aims at encouraging creativity from Yemeni youth, and assists women to pioneer in the business world. It also teaches teamwork, and affairs in developing and improving communication between successful businessmen and women.
 
Silatech is an initiative established in January 2008 by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned of Qatar, to address the critical and growing need to create new jobs and opportunities for young people across the Arab world.

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