Watch: Frelimo president wants to see young people producing to fight hunger – Mozambique

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Watch: Frelimo president wants to see young people producing to fight hunger – Mozambique

5:07 CAT | 30 Nov 2016

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Frelimo president Filipe Jacinto Nyusi on Monday challenged Mozambican youth to stop being purely idealistic and go to the countryside to produce food to fight hunger and develop the country, the Mozambican Information Agency writes.

President Nyusi was speaking in Mahubo, Boane district, Maputo province, at the official opening of a provincial youth camp, an event sponsored by the Mozambican Youth Organization (OJM), the youth league of the Frelimo party.

“There should be no time for words, but for work. Speaking, analyzing, observing in the air conditioning is easy. But here, on the ground, it is necessary to produce, to mobilise, to explain to the people that it is necessary to put chlorine in the water in order not to have cholera; that it is necessary to use mosquito nets to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes that cause malaria. This is the only way to distinguish Frelimo youth from youth fromelsewhere,” he explained.

“We do not want idealistic youth, those who only speak. We want young people who work to get into history,” he added.

Speaking about the camp, the president of Frelimo and of the Republic of Mozambique said that it was a special moment for youth, because it is through sharing opinions that young people find solutions to the country’s problems.

“Focus on what is essential for the country, on what tomorrow will constitute what we call equal opportunities. To have opportunity, you have to know how to do, how to be and how to be a patriot. If we are not patriots we will always mutter and comment and we will not learn how to work,” the head of state said.

The celebrations took place under the motto “Participation and productivity: Our agenda”, on which theme OJM General Secretary Mety Gondola said that the aim was to guide a national reflection on the main priorities of youth; namely ensuring their participation in various fields of social and philanthropic action.

About a thousand young people from all over Maputo province attended the youth camp, which ended on November 29. The camp’s main objective is to mobilise youth and the population in general to activities of charity and solidarity with vulnerable citizens and victims of natural disasters. The opening event was attended by guests including members of government and civil society.