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Generation pandemic: Why leaders must include youth in coronavirus response

Photo: Rekha Khatun. Munjur Rahman Shakib is a youth activist in Bangladesh

So it should be no surprise that young people are already on the ground leading coronavirus response in communities across the globe. Adam, a young activist supported by Oxfam in Mali, founded the Association of Youth for Active Citizenship and Democracy (AJCAD) to support displaced persons and destitute children. Since the onset of the pandemic, she has used web TV and social media to raise awareness of the disease and proper hygiene to prevent it. In rural Bangladesh, young people affiliated with Oxfam’s Empower Youth for Work program have been distributing masks, leaflets, food, and hygiene products; broadcasting health messages from loudspeakers on vans; encouraging quarantine; cleaning public spaces, and coordinating efforts with local administrators.Students at Edo Bits School in Edo State, Nigeria are designing a mobile application (The Stay Safeapp) to share information about Covid-19, reinforce hygiene practices, and track public places visited to support contact tracing. Young Palestinian refugees in the Aida and Azza camps in Bethlehem, who had received community health training to address diabetes, pivoted to create a video and pamphlets about COVID-19 prevention.

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