Editor,It’s a good idea to have a national service for young people and for them to engage in work that is beneficial to the community. It is important though that the national service also benefits the individual and ideally improves on their employability. In Rwanda, we face some problems with youth unemployment. Partly, this is because young people completing secondary school do not have the ‘soft’ skills employers are looking for like ability to work independently and in a team, and ability to manage a project. If the national service could be tailored to ensure those skills are built in our young people, no doubt, the problem of youth unemployment would also diminish.Charlotte, Kigali Reaction to Sunny Ntayombya’s article, "What is the point of voluntary national service? Make it compulsory,” (The New Times, January 24, 2013).