The marginalized - poor youth, youth from different races, youth who have a disability, or girl children are losing access to education. The right to be educated is being determined by social groups. Conditions in schools are deplorable. Lack of materials, oversized classrooms, and with few teachers make learning difficult. In industrialized countries, communities where immigrants, blacks and Hispanics live, have even fewer resources for education available to them.
Education is key to sustainable development.
It can be a force that stimulates participation in political life, brings awareness of new ideas, assists in the process of analysis, and it eventually shapes society. We should see education as more than learning how to read and write It should foster peace, development, respect for the environment, human rights, and cooperation, it should help us achieve sustainability. There needs to be a broad approach to education, one that includes a shift to issues that give youth the tools to build a sustainable future. Youth organizations not only have a role in advocating for accessible education but also have a role in promoting education. Young people can work in literacy, peer education, education that will be sensitive to the needs of minorities, women and Indigenous People.