Letters to the Editor: Today's the day to start equipping young people with skills for life

Skilling teachers, trainers, and young people for a transformative future is the theme for World Youth Skills Day 2023

Twelve-year-old Tiffeny Powell from YMCA Dublin ascending at Trinity Sports Ground this week. Skilling young people for the future is one of the themes YMCA Dublin is focusing on today, World Youth Skills Day. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall

Today is World Youth Skills Day.

The theme for World Youth Skills Day 2023, is ‘Skilling teachers, trainers and youth for a transformative future’. There are many opportunities and challenges that young people face, particularly in employment, and although there is a strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, it is equally important that we equip them with skills for life.