Youth leaders in Lautoka have been encouraged to be aware of issues affecting their members.

Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding chairwoman Florence Swamy said a week-long youth empowerment training for the leaders would enable them to help their members deal with these societal issues.

During the course of this week, what we will do is deliver an intense training that will empower young people focusing on the needs that you yourselves have identified in the spaces that you live in, she said.

We will deliver this training using our restorative justice platform to equip you with tools that will help you to analyse your situation, to communicate your needs, hopes and fears and to dialogue and negotiate the differences that you have.

While opening the event, Minister for Youth and Sports Parveen Kumar said the training was for the benefit of youths that made up 40 per cent of Fijis population.

It is my sincere hope that the youth participants will develop their own minds in regards to their families and their future, he said.

This program is an opportunity for participants to gather and explore the topics of human rights and gender reproduction, healthy relationships and mental health care so that you may carry these lessons throughout your lives.

According to the Mr Kumar, there are more than 800 youth clubs registered under the ministry with more than 15,000 active members.

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