Millennium Goals Seminar 2009!

Can the Millennium Goals be realised in 2015?

teamsynergy2009 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:54:07 +0000

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!

Saviour on HIV/AIDS

teamsynergy2009 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:51:58 +0000

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

Susanne on Gender Equality

teamsynergy2009 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:52:28 +0000

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

Ana on Achieving Primary Universal Education

teamsynergy2009 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:48:16 +0000

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

Carolyne on Eradicating poverty and hunger

teamsynergy2009 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:40:12 +0000

I am Carolyne Kiplagat a deep Kenyan girl. I grew up and studied in Kenya.

I saw what poverty is all about. Can you imagine that 85% of the Kenyans live below 1 dollar a day? This is what I myself experienced all the days I have been in Kenya. This is majorly due to the gap between the rich and the poor. The Rich are becoming richer and the poor becoming poorer.

Most families are starving to dead due to lack of finance. They do manpower jobs so that they can get their basic needs. Even with this others lack work to do thus end up dying due to lack of food.

Children are not send to school and most of them end up becoming a disaster to the surrounding since they become bad people due to lack of care from parents. This is a problem to the nation because most of them engage in criminal activities.

The urban areas are the worst due high growth of slums.

From my own point of view, without eradicating poverty and extreme hunger other millennium developing goals cannot be achieved in this nation. Kenya will never develop if this is not majorly emphasized.

I am also talking on behalf of Africa because this is one of continent which lags behind.

Indeed it is time to rise and fight against poverty!!

Carolyne

Aji on Child Health

teamsynergy2009 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:20:06 +0000

Health is a gift from God, and as a human being we have to look after it and bring it also for other people who need it. Based on information from the World Bank it is said that about 80% of the Indonesians still strive with poverty.

If they get an accident in the street and die nobody would know, nobody would care about it.

The other aspect such as diseases is also on their death circle, tuberculosis, Malaria and Thyphus can also take their live from this world. The Millennium Development Goas can perhaps help my country Indonesia to reduce it’s problems with Child Health.

From my perspective, a child health will be a greatest thing to reduce child mortality and will bring a new dream generation, a healthy generation.

Aji

January 12th at the HU

teamsynergy2009 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:49:01 +0000

Team Synergy of the Kofi Annan Business School 1^st year is excited to present you our first event we organized together. It’s a seminar on the Millennium Goals and

you’re all invited to join us on the 12^th of January 2009 at 15:00 at the FEM building room 2.E3