Upon entering the gate of Youth City, everyone affiliated with it expresses gratitude and joy for the recent paternal royal visit and the brotherly closeness and continuous care from His Highness Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who draws his determination to lead the youth and sports arena towards leadership from a broad royal vision and a government approach that “loves challenges.” Without a doubt, this exceptional care elevates the value and importance of the youth sector on the developmental priority list and increases the enthusiasm of its workers who impress with their performance and high morale, renewing the energy and vitality of all who visit them.

The flexible and decentralized leadership style in managing this integrated national project summarizes all that the ministry works for to serve youth aspirations in national participation, raise their awareness of future responsibilities, and equip them with the knowledge and skills required in preparation for the distant future, alongside instilling essential traits that form their national identity. This administrative flexibility has succeeded in attracting a huge number of qualified volunteers who invigorate the work team, all of whom are from the youth city itself and newcomers annually from all cities and villages of Bahrain. The city, considered the largest summer training and educational camp for Bahraini youth, invests heavily to refine its components to meet all tastes and satisfy all forms of scientific curiosity and practical ambition.

This wise investment considers the seriousness of youth drifting away from the correct paths, addressing the complex NEET phenomenon where youth voluntarily or involuntarily disconnect from the three main pillars of their lives: education, work, and training, resulting in social, economic losses and security threats. The city is bustling with diverse activities and an atmosphere of joy, optimism, and encouragement to elevate artistic taste, cultural and scientific knowledge, healthy living methods, and entrepreneurial skills. All this is implemented with an innovative training philosophy free from traditional constraints, relying on the latest methodologies to address the “silent dialogue” between youth readiness as a productive force and future requirements.

In a step indicating the ministry’s adoption of a policy to measure the return on its investments, the city launched a new track to enhance its expertise and institutionalize its work through a special authority dedicated to reading changes in the youth world and proposing innovative solutions based on the outputs of a massive six-week workshop. Youth City, which will quickly surpass its time frame linked to Vision 2030, is more prepared to translate youth hopes beyond its borders, possessing a wealth of success stories with material and moral evidence confirming the project’s right to all forms of support from national work partners to sustain its excellence.

The city resembles a gold mine that must be explored to extract the reflections of the effort exerted on the personality and mentality of today’s youth, especially the national media with all its means, to capture the most important headlines but in a way that avoids monotony and rigidity, conveying the essence and purpose of the work to its concerned audiences. Therefore, the story must be told in detail for this pure Bahraini landmark, whose institutional personality has matured through national minds and voluntary and participatory efforts. The ongoing development test is in place, and preparations must be intensified to ascend Mount 2050 to reach “beyond dreams,” as the city’s title for this year promises.