Perhaps we will manage to reach the Millennium Goals in 2015 but most likely we won’t. But what might be the reason for this? What’s needed and what is crucial in our fight against poverty and hunger, HIV/AIDS, Child Mortality or what is crucial for achieving the other Goals?
Gaston left the other day a comment on our blog saying that:
“I am moved by your initiative. We all know that 2015 is the target year of the MDGs. Half way in 2008, Ban Ki Moon has made it clear that the goals cannot be realised given the current trends. What makes this prospect bleaker is the number of new challenges facing the developed countries, especially the current global financial crisis. To think that promises of the MDGs to bail Africa and other developing regions out of poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, gender balance,… is wishful thinking. It is only when ‘development partners’ realise the need to make Developing Ares’s human wealth more productive that the MDGs will have scored a point.”
Do you agree with Gaston, do you think the Goals can make a diffrence or is it indeed wishful thinking?
Please share your thoughts!
Categories: millenium goals
Coming from Africa I have personally seen the devastating effects that Malaria and HIV/AIDS have left in families and the community, the segregation and discrimination of those living with HIV/AIDS. Life is hard enough when living with AIDS but can become unbearable if you have to face it alone.
Malaria and HIV/AIDS seem to be an “African problem” but these require global effort if the 6th millennium development goal is to be met by 2015.
The statistics coming from Africa are horrifying! Malaria kills an African every 30 seconds! Of the 39 million people living with HIV worldwide, 25 million are from sub-Saharan Africa. This is the grim reality that millions of Africans have to live with every day.
What can be done about this?
What have you done about it?
The problem is not that people do not care it is that they do not really know about such facts. It is important to provide a platform for those who play a front role in the combat against HIV/AIDS. Raising awareness about suchissues is essential to achieving the millennium development goals!
Saviour
Categories: Team synergy on the Millenium Goals
Tagged: 2015, Africa, change, children, death, diseases, education, empowerment, gender equality, help, HIV, HIV/AIDS, hunger, Indonesia, Jakarta, Kofi Annan, Millennium Goals, nicaragua, poverty, school, streetchildren, streetlife, world, Zambia
Can you imagine, not being allowed to go to school or to work or to do whatever you want to do. Just because you are a woman. Up until today this still happens everywhere in the world. You would think that everybody would have learned by now that women are just as capable as man. We are living in 2009!
I must say that for me, a 21 year old Dutch girl, the world seems full of opportunities. Things I want to see things I want to do, and above all things I think I will achieve when I finish my education. However I realize that this is not for everybody everywhere and that I am really lucky to have been born here.
So it is time to give something back, to make people aware about how lucky we are as women to be born in the Netherlands instead of almost anywhere else in the world. Making sure everybody keeps moving towards gender equality so everybody has equal chances everywhere in the world.
Susanne
Categories: Team synergy on the Millenium Goals
Tagged: 2015, Africa, change, children, death, diseases, empowerment, feminism, gender equality, help, HIV, hunger, Kenya, life, Millennium Goals, need, poverty, school, world, Zambia
