Familylifers.com Launched to Tackle Youth Unemployment, Marriage Challenges

Owing to the high rate of unemployment, increased level of poverty, diverse challenges facing marriages and family, a family-oriented online platform, family lifers (www.familylifers.com) has been unveiled to address these challenges.

Speaking at the event, the founders, Pastor Bisi Adewale and Mrs Yomi Adewale said the platform was built to tackle structural and practical challenges faced by Nigerian youths and families.

Adewale noted that the online family platform would not only help in creating a better family life but also support the government to create employment opportunities.

He also stated that the online forum is majorly designed with the purpose of using technology to address the myriad challenges facing families while leveraging the use of social media to bring families together to address issues affecting them.

According to the co-founders, the platform will equally help drives global wealth creation such as empowerment, employment, acquisition of skills, advertisement of businesses for SMEs and entrepreneurs.

Speaking as a life coach and accountant, Bisi Adewale said more attention needs to be paid to the younger generations to activate their full potential regardless of the present state of the country.

He highlighted that the platform will help empower and keep the youth busy while reducing crime rates.

“The new platform will also give room for young Nigerians to interact and showcase their skills, products and services Free Of Charge. It will also be an avenue for unemployed graduates to be linked with employers of labour as they upload their CVs on the platform”, he said.

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In her welcome address, Yomi Adewale said the adverse effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased challenges faced by families, especially youth and young adults who are the future of the nation and tomorrow’s leaders.

“The current unemployment rate of 27.1 per cent (National Bureau of Statistics, Q2 2020) implies an increase in the poverty level in many families. Many youths are out of jobs beyond gender, geographical or educational biased reasons.”

“It is on these premises that the initiative of creating an online platform was built to address structural and practical challenges faced by our youth today.”

Also speaking, the Chairman of the occasion, Mr Oluseye Kehinde, said that family life is an aspect to be encouraged because it provides an avenue for people to share their opinions, thoughts, challenges and also get feedback as well as talk to experts who would help them navigate their journey.