#YouthSummit: Attention Producers, If You Have Ever Wanted Your Own State Of The Art Studio, Here’s How You Can Get the Money
Yesterday, the Cabinet Secretary of Devolution and Planning, Anne Waiguru opened the Great Lakes Region Youth Summit. A summit that seeks to find the forwards in regards to unemployment among the youth and one of the things that she identified that could potentially provide an alternative was art.
Art takes on many different forms and one of those forms is music. Aye lad, music. And the art of music starts with inception within the mind of the producer. Once he has the instrumentals, he turns to his studio where he turns his idea into something “tangible” -no really, in a matter of speaking, instrumentals are tangible.
But many a budding producer is faced by issues when it comes to facilities. Many a lad I know dreams about being the next Kevin Provoke, the next Clemmo, founding the next Mainswitch Productions. But there is a huge hurdle that stands in the way of realizing that dream -funds.
But Ms. Anne Waiguru has charted a course for any budding producer. She outlined it yesterday in her speech… Allow me this opportunity to get an excerpt of her speech:
“The Government of Kenya has invested in Business development services through existing institutions within my ministry and other government departments. I encourage the Kenyan youth to visit the stands and seek information that will assist them grow their businesses.
This exhibition was organized in order to give Kenyan Youth and other exhibitors an opportunity to share experiences business initiatives and successes with other exhibitors attending the international conference on the Great Lakes Region. Other youth entrepreneurs have also show cased some of the products they have created. As you walk around the exhibition, you can expect to see;
1. ICGLR Country stands by Angola, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi and the
ICGLR secretariat
2. ILO youth supported programs in Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda
3. Huduma Center
4. National Youth Service programmes and equipment
5. Youth Enterprise Development project(YEDEF Supported initiatives)
6. AGPO registration process
7. Uwezo fund information Desk
8. ICT related innovations
9. Value added products from various youth groups.
10.Beautiful African Beads, clothes, soapstone carvings, , paintings and other artworks from Kenya
I wish to encourage all attending the exhibition to inform other youth to come and visit the stands and experience many youth employment initiatives within ICGLR region, private sector, development partners and other youth stakeholders.
As I conclude, I encourage all young people in this gathering to embrace entrepreneurship as the way to the future in business growth, employment creation and improvement of their livelihood.”
Gone are the days when entertainment was seen as a passtime or an outlet for idle youth. It is now a business. And rightfully so. Think about it in this sense, a producer makes instrumentals that he can then sell to artists. You build a business around your passion. Think it out.
For more information, be sure to pass by the ICGLR Youth Summit Exhibition!
