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On March 20 this year ICT News posted an article on how we can help elderly family members embrace technology in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Every year ASPBAE (Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education) holds a Basic Leadership Development Course (BLDC) to give adult and community education emerging leaders the skills and knowledge required to foster transformative adult and community education in their own countries and regions.

On July 19 the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres told the eight-day High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development that mobilising the transformative power of the world’s young people is an important pathway to achieving sustainable development.

In September the UN will launch a strategy to support and engage young people.

“Education”, said Guterres,“ is essential – as a critical tool for empowerment, for advancing gender equality and decent work for all, and for changing the way we produce, consume and live.”