Since the cost of living remains hard for the poor in Sierra Leone, youth take to the streets doing bike riding business for their survival.

They are going all out to seek a means for their survival and family.

But even when they fight off the odds daily, it is even more harder for them as bike riding business gets difficult the more almost every day.

This picture shows a group of very tired young men on News items road, a place in the market square of Waterloo.

Observing them a far, a man could hardly get three passengers in an hour because of the stiffness of their routine work.

It is not just too easy to get passengers as often as you wish like few years ago, these bike riders would tell you if you dare ask them one by one.

While prices on commodities in all markets in Sierra Leone are pretty higher due to inflation on imported goods, ordinary poor Sierra Leoneans including the youth suffer a lot more to get money for a day’s survival.

Until government returns many of these young men, to the farms, who are doing bike riding for survival, the issue of unemployment among youth will continue to stay with young people in Sierra Leone.

If many people go to the farms and government helps to employ young people and the elderly to State farms or government farms, and  people are paid wages equally the like sums of office workers today, nobody would like to sit home idling or risking their life on metal wheels ( Okadas) – bike riding.

To open up government farms and get the people to work and are paid lucrative sums of money as salaries _ are the common thinking shared by majority of Sierra Leoneans you would speak to in the street.

That was what China used to do under Mao Zedong, a man shared his opinion from a book he read.

China’s President during the early early 1960s took the young and elderly to farming work.

The Asia country engaged its youthful population in agriculture and farming saving up their food they could eat and sell with China.

They saved more crops and food then until China it is like today-fastest developing nation in the world.