Hopes
for travelling abroad to make greener pasture for better living is growing on daily basis in the heart and
mind of young people.
The
African region has recently experienced massive flow of her energetic young
people to Europe in the name of making wealth and virtually has caused so much
negative effect on the society we live.
Young
people are the force behind any positive societal development and if they take
risk which has the potential to claim their lives then that’s threatening.
In
each of our societies now, there is at
least one life lost in the attempt to reach the western world and these young
people are mostly the bread winners of their families and the society rely on
them for community lead initiatives and its related activities.
The
grief these loss of lives caused to society is immeasurable as clearly children are left to be orphans,
women became widows and institutions lost their hardworking employees in the
hands of cold death allowing the society to wallow in endless grief.
The
children who lost their parents in this journey in some societies are left
without support in their educational endeavours and eventually the children
becomes interrupted and thereby shattering their dream to be fully educated.
We
all know education is the best tool to develop any human and society so due to
this unfortunate journey, it has become nearly impossible for these children to
full fill this dream and fundamental human right o theirs.
Irregular
migration has equally affected our farming sector especially in the provincial
Gambia where farming is always at high gear among its occupants and clearly in
every community you visit is fully occupied by the young people and they are
the most active age groups in those communities and the active part of farming
is done by them. But now this is nearly
impossible in our communities due to searching greener pasture in Europe and
better living condition therefore
abandoning the farming sector to
the old age.
The
farming as we all know is one of the significant backbones to the growth of the
national economy and if the production rate declined due to the large absence
of the youths in the farms our economy will be largely affected and farming for
home consumption will equally be affected because the old people no longer have
the strength to work on a large piece of land therefore the expectation of the
harvest should not be big.
The
irregular migration has created another social problem in the society which is
the men who lost their life in the journey have their wives become widows and
it’s a believed in the minds of the locals that no one should marry the woman
who lost her husband in the hand of death and the stigma becomes too much and
unbearable on the widows causing great frustration in their minds which has a
tendency to compromise their performance in life.
Its
responsibility to ensure that the issue of illegal and irregular migration is
curb in order to address the earlier mentioned problems for the best interest
of the Gambia, for the children whose parents die in the journey and this
should be a responsibility of all to ensure that orphans are helped in their
drive to be educated like any other children in the society.
