Combating idleness and deprivation

THERE are many ways to finish a sentence that starts with "Idle hands.." and all are somewhat negative. Some years ago, a delegate from a Gulf State at one of my conferences told the gathering "... we will soon have 40,000 young people on our streets with no jobs to go to. That is worrying us". The delegates all agreed; they too were faced with the same issues with the idle often called NEET: Not in Employment, Education or Training.

This has been a long time coming. When t…