The reality of young people in Guatemala
Guatemala is a country that needs to improve quickly in the matter of education, posibilitites and stable jobs. 70% of people in Guatemala are younger than 30 years, so that means we still have the chance to change the country for good. The program gave a lot of reasons why Guatemala is how it is nowadays.
The principal reason is poberty. More than a half of Guatemalans population live in conditions of poberty, for example: the place they live is in bad conditions, they don´t have any water, they don´t have electricity, etc... ; so this means less education for kids by lack of resources. Poberty is a common situation in a lot of countries in Central America. Few kids with low resources have the opportunity to enter to a school, but some of them actually finishes it. Other kids also have the opportunity to enter to highschool and to the university by giving the best they can. By entering to the university, young people have the opportunity to change a lot of things and improving their ways of living by encouraging others to do the same thing.
Many young people leaves school by several other factors: they may have bad friends that encourage them to enter to gangs or to consume drugs, or kill. These factors make young people to follow bad steps and to loose their track in life. They also led to jail or even to death.
There is also the most dangerous opportunity to keep going on life: the migration. People thinks that moving from place to place they will get better job, but probably it isn´t.
Everyday people finds their true love and have kids, right?, these kids depend on the way the parents or family live and their surroundings. If the parents live in poberty, same with the kids. If Guatemala continues living in poberty, imagine in the future (2050): 30 million people with no jobs ; more pregnacies; people dying because lack of water and food, etc. The future is now in our hands, but we must act quickly (if not, Guatemala will only get worse every single day); when that happens, the entire country will live in situations of poberty.
Guatemala needs formal jobs with people that has potencial. The Government must open new doors for young people who have the potencial and talent to do great things; by doing this, Guatemala would be improving. There is also a problem, people with low resources have less opportunities to develop potentials and talents, so the Government must do something to change that. Guatemala also needs young people interested in politics, but i the good way. The future politics are the ones destinied to change the country if they were educated with the intention of improving the country without corruption.
There are young people who are working by themselves to make Guatemala a better country. This company is called "Techo". They build houses to poor people all around the country. Its a noble cause because they got nothing in return but a smile and thanks of the poor people.
