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En Germany is in big trouble and its counting on Africa to help it
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This is how Kenya will help Germany
On January 18th, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz uttered pleasantly shocking words.
He said, “Those who want to roll up their sleeves are welcome in Germany. That is our message!”
He was addressing an audience comprising of business leaders and decision-makers in Davos Switzerland.
Four months later on May 6th the German Chancellor acted further on his words. He visited Kenya and together with Kenya’s President William Ruto, signed a workforce deal between Kenya and Germany. As per the deal, Germany is ready to absorb a staggering 250,000 professional, skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers.
President Ruto announced that Kenya is ready to bridge the language gap by introducing the teaching of German in Kenya’s learning institutions.
While the prospect of a quarter a million Kenyans finding jobs in Germany is good news for Kenya, it is actually better news for Germany. They are opening their arms to embrace Kenyan workers because they have to, not because they really want to do so.
Germany is undergoing a labor crisis. It has Europe’s most aging population. There is a huge gap between Germans born from 1950 to 1970 and those born in the 1990s, who are roughly half of the older Germans.
This demographic disparity is drilling a humongous hole in Germany's pension and social insurance funds. Over the next 15 years, 13 million German workers will leave the labor market. There simply aren’t enough Germans to take up their jobs. That’s why Germany needs an average 0f 400,000 new immigrant workers annually.
Do you now see how Kenya is in fact bailing out Germany, more than Germany is bailing out Kenya?
عنوان البريد الإلكتروني هذا محمي من روبوتات السبام. يجب عليك تفعيل الجافاسكربت لرؤيته.
German Chancellor and Kenya's President
