By Providence Obuh

Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has said that youth entrepreneurship is a key to its policy, reiterating readiness to continue inspiring youth by engaging them in activities that will explore and expose their inert and creative talents.

Speaking at a meeting to flag off the Child Live Painting and Literary Arts Competition, titled “The Road to Sambisa” Executive Director, Marketing, Mr. Benson Evbuomwan, said that the company will continue to support initiatives and programmes that will impact positively in the lives of the youth.

Evbuomwan said: “We got the proposal to sponsor the competition and we were excited about it. So, every opportunity to interact with little children, any opportunity we also have to also encourage children to express the gift that is inside of them we always like to take advantage of such opportunities, because as a company that is what we stand for.

“People have talents which they don’t even know about until you give them the opportunity to showcase those talents. Some people need to be helped, some need to be given the opportunity to showcase their talents, so we believe that we all are provided the opportunity to really express our talents so that we can make our world better,” he said. He explained that the company has rewards for the children who will come tops in individuals categories, saying, “So we believe that these children need to be supported, they need to be encouraged so as to serve as a motivation for many other children.

He described the children as future leaders, saying “they are going to change our future so we need to begin to develop them today, we need to give them the opportunity to be able to change the future that we desire and the future we also want them to have”.