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Wayne Campbell | Skills for a Shared Future

Alarmingly, 273 million children and young people are out of school. In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared July 15 as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

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