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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180713
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SUMMARY:Year of Global Africa: Youth Empowerment Program Youth Leadership Summit, 13th-15th
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 At present, 1.8 billion of the world's population 
 are youth between the ages of 10 and 24. 
 Eighty seven percent of these young people live 
 in less developed countries. The energy and 
 innovative capacities of these young people, 
 especially concentrated as they are in countries 
 whose overall populations are more youthful, 
 offer potential for economic prosperity, 
 if invested in. The unprecedented levels of 
 unemployment and disenfranchisement is a critical 
 challenge, one that is no longer a concern 
 for the future. It is here, staring at all 
 of us in the face and worsening the longer 
 we wait to act. Today, it no longer matters where 
 you live, the burdens of unemployment, migration, 
 rising inequality, and decreasing democratization 
 is affecting all of us. For too 
 many, being young means being unemployed, excluded 
 from decision-making, limited in their 
 access to productive resources such as financing 
 and land - and, as a result, more vulnerable 
 to unemployment, poverty and sometimes 
 violence and acts of extremism.\n
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 Contact name: Alexandra Jarvis\n
LOCATION:Kellogg Center, MSU
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