Generation COVID: How young people are bouncing back

Generation COVID: How young people are bouncing back

COVID-19 has had a huge effect on young people either in the later stages of their education, and in the early stages of their careers.

Since the start of the pandemic, 1-in-6 young people have stopped working and half have faced delays to their education, according to the UN's ILO.

But young people are finding innovative ways to help them through the pandemic, reducing the long-lasting effect coronavirus is forecast to have.



Adesola Akerele had finally landed her dream internship at a production company in London when coronavirus hit and the job was gone.

The 23-year-old graduate, like millions of young people around the world, fell victim to a pandemic halting studies and wiping out employment for young people entering the job market.

But Akerele also found an upside.



She had always wanted to write about the experience of being Black in Britain, and as anti-racism protests spread around the world last summer, she found that for the first time people seemed ready to listen.

"Instead of chasing elusive creative jobs, I used the lockdown to focus on launching my career as a screenwriter," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"The pandemic gave me something I didn't have before: time to write