King Salman center launches plan to develop youth skills

DAMMAM: The King Salman Youth Center (KSYC) has launched a new initiative called the Khattet Plan, which seeks to rehabilitate young people by training them to develop and organize their personal life skills in various areas.

The initiative, which will be carried out during the next three months, includes five sessions covering life skills such as dreams and reality, planning and scheduling, saving and investment, communication skills and measuring personal improvement.
In its second phase, Khattet will travel to four of the Kingdom’s major cities, beginning at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah.
Prominent speakers include Ibrahim Alawi, Khaled Al-Saber, Kamal Abdulaal, Fahd Al-Snidi and Ibrahim Niyaz.
According to KSYC Executive Director Hani Al-Muqbil, “KSYC is concerned with supporting and empowering youth in our society and encouraging their entrepreneurial spirit.
“We aim to participate in developing a creative and determined generation by supporting youth initiatives, adopting their ideas, promoting their spirit of participation and urging them to work hard.”
The Khattet initiative that grew out of a study by KSYC showed that 74 percent of Saudi youth believe that planning is complicated and needs special understanding.
“This is why we have come up with this series of lectures to increase the awareness among youth about planning concepts in different areas, in addition to supporting them with the right skills to plan and execute their own goals,” Al-Muqbil said.
He said that Khattet is the first national youth planning initiative, which has seen great developments this year, stressing that KSYC would expand Khattet to cover new areas in the coming years.