![]() "We need to ask ourselves: how can we - UN Agencies, governments, the private sector, NGOs, academia - empower youth to drive social progress in the developing world through new and innovative projects?" We need to ask ourselves: how can we - UN Agencies, governments, the private sector, NGOs, academia - empower youth to drive social progress in the developing world through new and innovative projects? Over the next decade and beyond, if we are to solve the most pressing issues of our time, we need to tap into the dynamism of youth movements and young social entrepreneurs, for they have the potential to disrupt inertia and be the most creative forces for social change. And every three seconds, another girl is forced or coerced to marry.Īll this, and I cannot help but be optimistic when I see the commitment of young people around the world. Almost 40 percent of the 6,800 new HIV infections each day are among young people. Every year, 16 million adolescent girls become mothers. ![]() More than 100 million adolescents do not attend school. About half of all young people survive on less than two dollars a day. This generation, the most interconnected generation ever, continues to grow rapidly, and the challenges they face are ever more daunting. And of this young population, 90 percent live in developing countries. Last year, the world reached a historic milestone with seven billion people, 1.8 billion of which are youth aged 10 to 24. I also see how my own children connect with friends on Facebook.Īt the same time, we are living in a world faced with huge social challenges. I see this whenever I travel the young boys of Lagos preoccupied with their cell-phones a young girl tweeting from a health-care clinic in Bogota a young Liberian nurse taking notes on an iPad. (Amit Dave/Reuters)Ī social media revolution is unfolding before our eyes, forever changing the way we connect. Children play cricket against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in Ahmedabad, India on June 17th, 2007.
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