Focus on youth! There are high expectations for the younger generation in building a new Kazakhstan. The country’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed to support their business initiatives as much as possible. There are also plans to increase wages and extend the term of participation in the Youth Practice and First Job projects. In other words, the young people of the country should stay busy and receive a stable and sizeable profits. The active youth of Kazakhstan well understands this. Chairperson of the capital’s branch of the Jas Otan Youth Organization Bagdaulet Zhandildayev stressed that it is important to teach children to work hard from an early age, as well as to explain from the school bench that there are state programs that encourage the pursuit of knowledge and the achievement of goals.
“It is necessary to enhance young people’s legal literacy. There is a problem with involving them in education. I think this can be fixed. For our part, it’s the first thing to do. We take many initiatives to support young people in the capital. We launched the ‘Yelorda Zhastary’ program to provide them with housing. There are many programs for renting out apartments to them. More than 4,000 grants from the local budget are allocated annually to colleges, secondary specialized educational institutions. We support this on our part of the maslikhat,” he said.
Translation by Aruzhan Bizhigitova
Editing by Saniya Sakenova