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YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: Building Tomorrow recruits and trains young Ugandan university graduates and sends them to rural and under-served schools and communities.  With nearly eight million young people in the country, Erisa Sserwadda, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Kampala, Uganda explores how young people can be mobilised to be part of the education solution. …

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YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: A sanitary pad distribution initiative to keep girls in school, and a project to groom school prefects into future leaders are some of the examples of the work young people in Nigeria are doing to create a better future for others. Nnabugwu Chukwuebuka, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Uzii in Nigeria, …

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A well-rounded individual is the product of three schools, each of them as important as the next. Commonwealth Correspondent Metolo Foyet, 21, from Cameroon discusses the merits of learning in the home, in the classroom, and from the good old ‘school of life’. Education at home is by far the most crucial of all types …

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Young people make up more than half of Fiji’s population – but they are mostly excluded from policy formulation and decision-making. Broderick John Mervyn, one of this year’s Commonwealth Youth Awards finalists, is working to change that through his initiative Ignite4Change. Oghenekevwe Oghenechovwen, a 21-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Warri in Nigeria, spoke to Broderick about …

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Vedant Jain is set on giving children from underprivileged backgrounds the best tools they need to succeed—the discovery of themselves and their abilities. He is co-founder of the ‘Labhya Foundation’; a non-profit that equips children from low socio-economic with critical social and emotional skills. Vedant’s efforts earned him a place as one of the 2020 …

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It is in times like these that an idea like Salvatory Kessy’s online education platform really shines. Salvatory, from Tanzania, is the founder of SmartClass, a platform which matches low-cost qualified and vetted tutors to students interested in learning basic skills such as numeracy, literacy, computing, agriculture and languages. Commonwealth Correspondent Tumaini John Makole from …

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As governments attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in local communities and countries, it is vital that they communicate to citizens in languages that people in different segments of the society speak and understand. Metolo Foyet, a 23-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Cotonou, Benin, shares her experience with language learning when she was growing …

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