We Empower, Impact & Change the Youth by changing their perspective & attitude towards Career, Business & Entrepreneurship.💡Eradicating Poverty & Unemployment.
We can sit in a history lesson as we have been doing for the past almost 60 years, licking our wounds or begin to fix things. I choose the latter.
#HustleYako Iendelee!
STATEMENT ON @HUSTLEYAKO INITIATIVE'S POSITION ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
We feel it prudent to respond to sentiments from quarters against the empowerment of Career Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Business People who are at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
We want everyone to earn. We want everyone to thrive - be it on the golden-plated desks or in the dusty marketplace. Leadership is about fixing the economy.
Leadership is about empathy. Leadership is about providing solutions for all, not just the 'chosen few.' Kenya desperately needs a new crop of leaders who will change the narrative. Kenya needs a new crop of leaders who will change policy and reset government priorities.
We can't all be fortune 500 company CEOs either. However, we can all thrive in whatever we choose to do and we can all make money, feed our families and get ahead, regardless of our station in life.
For the record, the #HustleYako Development Agenda & Youth Movement has never been & will never be elitist. Those side-chatting us saying we can't fit in car wash business or fruit vending in market also need to know that we can't all sit in carpeted offices with glass ceilings.
Young people and the business community at large just need an enabling environment to trade. The truth is that this government has intentionally sabotaged the economy via state capture, draconian policies and commercial suppression.
For the longest time, government has neglected the informal sector. This oversight needs to be corrected. This sector needs to be prioritized. Note, majority of Kenyans are in the informal sector not by choice, but to make ends meet. There are no jobs. Businesses have collapsed.
Every hustle matters. Every Career, Business or Entrepreneurial Venture needs to be respected. Be it being an IT Firm CEO or a Hustler selling fruits - every hustle matters! We will not desist from empowering those who are in the blue-collar jobs to better sustain themselves.
The status quo is such that most Kenyans are living below a dollar a day (100 bob per day i.e. less than 3k per month). The status quo is that a very few number are minting millions.
Many of those who brush off the empowerment of the downtrodden are Kenya's greatest enemies of development. Why should it make people so angry to see a mama mboga, a chali wa mtura or a bodaboda rider getting ahead? Because it will distablize the status quo.