Uganda will join the rest of the United Nations fraternity in\nmarking and commemorating the International Youth Day Celebrations of\nInternational Youth Day on 12th Monday August, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s theme of the International Youth Day Celebrations\nwill be: \u201cTransforming Education for Responsible Citizenship & Employment\nCreation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purpose of celebrating International Youth Day is in\nrecognition of the numerical strength of the young people and their importance\nin contributing to achieving the aspirations of state parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While\naddressing the press at the Uganda Media Centre, early this morning, the\nminister of State for youth and Children Affairs Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi said\nthat the theme emphasizes the importance of relevant, quality education and\nskills in molding a wholesome being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\nemphasizes the importance of relevant and quality education and skills in\nmoulding a wholesome being. Our ministry is focusing on equipping Young people\nwith relevant skills in different sectors such as sports among other\nactivities,\u201d she said in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\ncelebrations, like the norm has always been, will take place at various local\nGovernment levels across the country but the main national celebrations will\ntake place in Jinja District at St Gonzanga Primary School Kagoma on 12th\nAugust, 2019, 24kms on Jinja-Kamuli Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nakiwala\ncalled upon the public to attend the main celebrations which will be starting at\n8:00am on August 12, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Uganda will join the rest of the United Nations fraternity in marking and commemorating the International Youth Day Celebrations of International Youth Day on 12th Monday August, 2019. This year\u2019s theme of the International Youth Day Celebrations will be: \u201cTransforming Education for Responsible Citizenship & Employment Creation.\u201d The purpose of celebrating International Youth Day is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":10421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}