The New Times (Kigali)  Rwanda: Jobless Youth Need More Than
Loans to Start Businesses   A GOVERNMENT scheme Kuremena geared
at creating jobs and fighting unemployment, especially for the
youth, has so far benefitted over 23,000 people. This is a
commendable effort on the part of government and should be
supported by all Rwandans.  However, there are some critical
areas of the project that might have been ignored: skills
development and growing the Rwandans entrepreneurial spirit.
Because Kuremera caters for all groups of people, including the
illiterate, it faces the challenge of skills gap among the
targeted sectors of our society.  This puts the scheme in a
precarious situation since the beneficiaries might get working
space, equipment and loans, but still remain in a vicious circle
of poverty or underemployment. How could this happen, one could
ask. If you give people money to start businesses when they lack
business skills and knowledge, it will be miraculous for their
enterprises to survive. Besides, so