Entries categorized as ‘Team synergy on the 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
Coming from Latin-American I have seen with my own eyes how the situation is with unprivileged children. I have seen their faces when there is nothing they can do but recognize they will not go to school like other children.
Education is the key to take our countries to the next level and children play a big role in this. The goal of achieve universal primary education is not just about getting children to complete it, but it also has to do with the kind of education they received.
I have been inspired by the way NGO’s from different part of the world are helping my country to accomplish this. Nicaragua has the blessing to count with many local governments that are helping with this; one of them is Utrecht-Leon.
The work is enormous but the rewards are even greater! When we invest in children and in their education we will be investing in our country as well.
I believe in my country and I believe in education being a key for development.
Ana
Categories: Team synergy on the Millenium Goals
Tagged: 2015, change, children, death, diseases, education, help, HIV, Kofi Annan, mdg, Millennium Goals, need, nicaragua, poverty, school, world
