Bring the brawlers to us and they will stop wanting to cause brawls anymore, says head of the Navuso Agriculture Technical Institute, Uraia Waibuta.
He said this during the launch of the institute’s Bamford Student Farmers Scheme.
Mr Waibuta said they were looking to enroll some of the youths from Raiwai and other areas who have been involved in the recent brawls. He said it was their way of playing a proactive role in addressing youth issues.
Mr Waibuta said enrolling them at the institute and teaching them new skills could help change their mindset.
“We will always create awareness through the different communities that we think is suitable for us to move in to, in order to encourage those young men and women to come into agriculture, participate and for them to take it up as a skills set,” Mr Waibuta said.
“This is something we encourage our young boys to do through the program that we are running.
“That is one of the core activities that we have undertaken and we will continue to undertake.”
He said agriculture was a skillset that needed to be learned “otherwise you’re just a villager”.
“Bring the brawlers to us and they will stop wanting to cause brawls anymore.
“Bring them through the programs that we run to try and change their mentality and get them back into the rural area and become agents of change through farming.
“To be a farmer you need to know what to do and Navuso can offer that knowledge to these young men and women.”
