this parliament appropriates huge chunks of money for education and the majority of the beneficiaries in this regard are the youth apart from this there are other programmes across government from which the youth benefit while we recognise this reality the fact is that there is still a lot to do to enable our youth who for no fault of their own were bypassed by development and now need to catch up we need to be mindful of the statistical reality that the majority of the citizens of this country are both women and young people