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Fiji: Youth move away from marijuana
Fiji Times
Monday 10 Apr 2006 FIFTEEN youths in Tunuloa, Cakaudrove, have been trained to involve themselves in more productive work instead of cultivating drugs. The youths, from six villages, graduated last week after six weeks of intensive training. As a result of the training, the ministry said, the youths had established for themselves and their communities a food security program designed to promote an improved and alternative livelihood. "The National Youth Service mobile training program is a fairly new concept that allows the ministry to take the NYS values in discipline and character development training closer to the community and environment that are familiar and accessible to young people without having to leave the vicinity of their villages," youth officer Vani Catanasiga said. Because of efforts to rid the area of drug cultivation, the ministry came up with the idea of a mobile training that would: Involve youth in a more meaningful program; conducted agriculture training in their own localities; provide tools; establish a planting program; establish youth groups and revive work schemes; provide vegetable seeds.
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