While the whole world is puzzling over how to stimulate economic growth, we ourselves hold the key to our economic development.

Young people from various backgrounds are graduating from school, assessing their employment prospects - and creating their own jobs given the current situation of rampant unemployment in the country.

It is a reality that not everyone who just graduated from school, colleges and even universities will be readily absorbed into the job market.

Most of them will definitely “tarmac” around looking for opportunities to exploit their theoretical knowledge but in vain. A possible solution to the above is embracing entrepreneurship.

Anyone in the society with whatever ability they have be it financial or whatsoever should not look down upon those small ideas some might come up with.

Instead they should encourage and maybe try and help bring them to reality. Like sowing a seed that its eventuality is a big tree, small ideas will someday reap a good fortune.

We should be able to learn something from the following story; “Raised by her widowed father in rural Zimbabwe, Melody Jori showed an entrepreneurial spirit at a young age.

She started her first business when she was a 19-year-old university student studying business management.

"I noticed at break time that students often wanted something to chew on, so I began selling chocolates," says Melody.
Next, she opened a clothing boutique.

Then last year, Melody defied a host of skeptics to pursue her greatest ambition: she launched The Marketer, a business magazine.

"No bank would give me a loan because I didn't have collateral. Many people discouraged me. 'Such a complicated enterprise!' they would say. 'Why don't you just do buying and selling?'

I persisted because I wanted to show the world that a young people can accomplish something big regardless of their age."
In launching the magazine, Melody is creating jobs. She employs a designer, a marketing officer, and a production manager.

She trains other people in entrepreneurship. "Because of high unemployment, it's time to start creating jobs," she says. "Jobs which will help us sustain our lives and benefit our communities."

In these difficult times, Melody offers us a message of hope and strength from Zimbabwe.”

Given that necessary little support, before long our society will be filled with Melodys - young people with the vision, drive and skills to enroute us out of poverty.