Africa-Press – Angola. Some young people from the city of Soyo, Zaire province, highlighted this Tuesday the need to preserve the effective peace that the country has enjoyed for 22 years, calling for harmonious coexistence and difference.
Regarding Angolan Youth Day, marked last Sunday, April 14, young people highlighted the importance of investing in academic and technical-professional training, as a path to individual and collective success.
Venâncio António, 24 years old, university student, said that Angolan youth have an increased role in preserving peace, as they are the majority among the Angolan population and that they were more directly or indirectly involved in the armed conflict that tore the country apart.
He stressed that peace is preserved through practical acts, especially in the care that must be taken towards public heritage, national symbols and the country’s leaders, tolerance, love for one’s neighbors and the country, as well as active participation in the process of development of the nation.
He considered continued investment in the technical-professional and academic training of young people to be essential to face the increasingly competitive job market.
Isabel Nlandu Formosa, also a university student, considers peace to be a gift from God and appeals to citizens to preserve it, stressing that without it it is impossible to dream of a prosperous and developed Angola.
“We all want to see a developed Angola, like other countries in Europe and America, but, to do so, we have to preserve peace, without it there is no step to take towards achieving social well-being”, he highlighted.
He advised young people to look at technical-professional and academic training as an investment, and also called for a focus on entrepreneurship to encourage self-employment.
Álvaro Tabita, entrepreneur, said that only with peace and political and social stability is it possible to attract foreign private investment to the country, which he considered fundamental for economic and social development.
Someone who also considers the preservation of peace necessary is motorcycle taxi driver Celestino Ngoma, who appealed to his companions to avoid engaging in riotous and rebellious behavior.
In his opinion, respecting the rules of social coexistence, the Highway Code and the guidelines issued by the competent authorities of the State are also ways of preserving peace.
Angola achieved effective peace on April 4, 2002, after almost three decades of armed conflict.
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