Recommend how the oxfarm can get more youth involved to improve and support their own communities
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The youth population of the world is the largest it has ever been: 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 and 24, making up one quarter of humanity, the majority of whom live in urban areas of developing countries.
Despite their numbers, young people are largely excluded from decision-making due to adult-centric policies and social norms and values that usually fail to take their views interests or voices into account.
They are grappling with serious social, political and environmental problems inherited from their elders and are the most vulnerable to economic crises. They are marginalized politically and culturally and will bear a disproportionate burden of the effects of climate change.
Millions of them face discrimination based on their gender, sexual orientation, race, caste, religion, ethnicity, physical ability or the place where they live:
More than 500 million young people live on less than 2$ a day.
Nearly 126 million cannot read a full sentence.
43% of the global youth labor force is either unemployed or trapped in working poverty
An estimated one in three girls is married before the age of eighteen, with some married as young as eight.