Supporting every young person to self-identify as a changemaker

Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe recently urged the youth to be part of the solution in the fight against COVID-19 in Kenya.

This could have passed as one of those hasty statements politicians are wont to make for the cameras but the good CS seemed to have been speaking from a deeper conviction going by the references he made. He drew parallels with the fight for independence when the generation of young people then, convinced they had much more to lose if they didn’t step up their game as leaders of the moment, stood up to be counted.