Transcript Shape the Future Millenium Development Goals

THIS IS THE TIME TO ACT
Shape the Future
Millenium Development Goals
St Bedes School, Redhill
by Hannah Cheek, Ivana Murphy, Tamsin
Lloyd, Kristina Adriatico & Hannah Moss
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development
MDGs
The number living on less than $1.25 a day has fallen by 47% and, although economic
issues have slowed the rate down, extreme poverty is still decreasing. Yet in 2015 there will
still be around 1 billion, 16% of the world's population, living on less than $1.25 a day.
Since 1990 the number of children out of school has dropped from 100 to 61 million, but
there are too many children who drop out of school or miss out because there are not
enough secondary places. Still 120 million young people have the status of illiterate.
Primary education for both genders has now been achieved worldwide, however the
representation of women is still low, in both paid employment and national government, as
4 in 5 seats are held by men. Abuse of women is still prevalent globally.
Although child mortality has fallen by 4.4 million worldwide, 7 million children under the age
of 5 die every year. The progress that has been made is not fast enough to meet the target
in 2015, however in LEDCs the rate of progress has improved.
Maternal mortality has almost halved since 1990 but is nowhere near the 2015 target of
three quarters. Teen pregnancy has been reduced, although the rate of progress has
slowed in the last decade. Wider access to reproductive healthcare is also available.
The spread of
tuberculosis appears to
to have been stopped.
Worldwide fewer people are dying from malaria and access to
treatment for HIV/AIDS has increased. The number now living
with HIV/AIDS has, however, increased by 17%, moving further
from the target.
Environmentally, there were many aspects they wanted to achieve. Slum dwellers are now
living in more habitable conditions but the population is increasing. People now have
increased access to water sources and water sanitation has improved but not enough to
meet the target.
MEDCs have given aid to LEDCs and reduced the tax charged to them on import, with some
issues. Mobile phone use is now regular in LEDCs and internet use is increasng but at a
slower rate. The money owed by LEDCs to developed countries has decreased.
No Success
Success
New Development Goals
• Health
• Education
• Equality
• Environment
HEALTH
We all know that people die and that at one point in our
lives it will be our time to pass, however that does not
mean that the 1.2 million deaths every year from
malaria should be forgotten about. It does not mean the
7 million under fives who die annually should be tossed
aside. These figures show that we have to do
something and do it now, because while you are
reading this, a child has died from malaria somewhere
in the world.
What can we do to aid these situations? How much do we
spend on medication in this country? The price varies,
but for those people who desperately need the
medication it is far too expensive to purchase. This is
because of patents. If we were to try to remove the
patents from these major medications it would be more
affordable and accessible to those who need it.
Another cheap and simple cure is to send a group of
people to villages in less developed areas, to educate
them in easy preventions and cures, such as filtering
water and using protection whilst having intercourse,
as a way to prevent HIV/AIDS.
We need to act and we need to act now, as there are
preventable deaths that nothing is being done about.
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Make all medication more
readily available and affordable.
Reduce child and maternal
mortality by 50%.
Educate women about easy
prevention methods and cures.
Reduce the 1.2million annual
deaths from malaria by 50%.
EDUCATION
Around the world, over 70 million children do not go to
school. Either costs are too high for parents to
afford multiple children to attend or just not enough
places are available. We have the privilege of
schooling, which we take advantage of, while there
are children who would do anything to learn. In
developing countries there is not the same budget
for equipment and training, so the quality of
education is lacking. How are these countries
supposed to develop, if the future generation are
not being taught the skills needed to maintain a
fulfilling job?
We asked a school in Tanzania some questions, and
both boys and girls of 15-17 answered that they
wished for improved job opportunities. We feel that
making that one of our goals will be an intelligent
and useful decision.
Our goal is to increase the amount of free schooling
available, specifically in developing areas. We also
plan to improve the quality of teaching by
broadening the curriculum, so enabling students to
gain life skills. Of course we will encounter
problems, but these are the 3 main steps in order to
achieve improved worldwide education.
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Increase amount of free
education by 50%.
Train more teachers to
provide a better quality of
education.
Improve access to job
opportunities in less
developed areas.
EqUALITY
In the UK males and females are treated equally with
respect. But that is not the case worldwide. Women
still face discrimination in many areas, including
education, work, management of finances and
participation in government. They also continue to
face abuse and violence just because they are
female.This has set back the previous goals and
hindered the aims being completed.
Several countries also have laws which prevent people
speaking out, often with execution as punishment.
These countries, such as Iran and North Korea, are
seriously reducing the effect of equality. There are
also laws on religions and we feel that they also
should be treated equally and with respect.
Worldwide, including the UK and USA, human rights are
not respected and are frequently violated, often
through discrimination towards sexuality, religion, age
and colour of skin. If we really want to improve the
world we live in, then we need to do something about
inequality. It will be hard, but if a small number of
people start off by treating everyone the same, we will
have made a small step in the right direction.
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Allow more freedom of
speech in corrupt areas.
Improve equality in
human rights.
Improve gender equality.
ENVIRONMENT
We live in a community which has green grass, trees,
open fields and houses, however, if you were to go
to Africa or South America and visit the slums, I
can guarantee you would be appalled. How would
you like to live in a one-roomed shack, with holes
in the corrugated tin roof, sharing a toilet with 50
families and living your life in one place, where the
streets are paved with faeces. This is how 1 billion
people live. That is an awful lot of people, which is
why something needs to be done about it. The
living conditions must be improved and the
population of the slums reduced.
Instead the complete opposite is taking place. Major
cities are burning fuels day and night, increasing
the amount of greenhouse gases that escape into
the atmosphere, eating up the ozone layer and
increasing global warming.
Trees provide us with oxygen and with deforestation
happening at an alarming rate, our rainforests will
soon be considerably reduced, resulting in
extinction of hundreds of species of plants and
animals. We need to change the way humans treat
the environment, as we will not have it forever.
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Reduce number of slum
dwellers by 10%.
Improve sanitation and living
conditions in the slums.
Monitor amount of
greenhouse gases used in
major cities.
Sustain forests and monitor
deforestation.
SECURITY
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Child abuse is reported every 10 seconds.
A woman is beaten in the US every 9 seconds.
61% of sexual assaults are not reported.
Is this really the world we want to live in? Do you feel
safe? Should we be allowed to live independently or do
we have to constantly fear for our safety? 3 million child
abuse cases annually. Every week 2 women die from
domestic abuse. It is not just the shocking figures but
the fact that we are oblivious to what really happens.
Should we not be aware of what happens and try to
stop it? Are there laws to punish attackers
appropriately? Are we trained in self defense, or ways
that we can prevent things happening, whatever our
gender. Surely people should be allowed to feel safe
and that their feelings are worth something. 2.5 million
people are trafficked each year in the sex industry. Is
this not wrong? We have to change it. 1.2 million
children are forced into sex labour and beaten every
year. Now tell me you feel safe. This is not to make you
worry. It is to make you change the way you think about
things.
Abuse is something big. Abuse is something so horrid it
hurts your soul. Abuse is something that needs to be
stopped and stopped now.
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Enable protection to those
who need it.
Have workshops and training
in self defense.
Provide worldwide safety from
domestic abuse.
MDGs
The Survey
We also contacted someone in Australia,
whose results are as follow:
The three most important of the current
MDGs:
1. Ending Poverty
6. Combat HIV, malaria and other diseases
8. Ensure the world governments work
together.
She also thinks that the 5 main concerns
for young people in Australia are:
Affordable and nutritious food
Access to clean water and sanitation
Protecting young people from abuse
An honest and responsive
government
Freedom from discrimination and
persecution
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St Bedes School has a link with a partner school in Tanzania,
called Shambalai Secondary School. We sent off a questionnaire,
asking them about the Millenium Development goals and what
they would like to see happen in Tanzania. The pie charts show
the top 5 aspirations, by gender. It is clear that the boys are
already treated with more respect than the girls, since the females
would prefer a good quality at home and equality between men
and women, whereas the boys focused on political freedom and
internet access. By contrast both genders would like to have better
job opportunities and reliable energy sources, which we have
incorporated into our goals.
Malaria
Malaria is evidently one of the world's
major diseases and that is why we have
chosen to focus on reducing the number of
deaths.
1.2 million deaths per year.
Approximately 216 million cases in
2010
People at all ages are at risk, but specific
targets are children under 5s in
transmission areas.
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Malaria is preventable and curable, but
many disease-ridden areas do not have the
facilities or medication to cure the victims.
Education
Girls in LEDCs are more likely to miss out on
their education for various reasons. They
often take over some of their mothers jobs as
early as age 4 - looking after siblings and
doing housework - while their mother works in
the fields. If a family cannot afford to send all
their children to school, boys will typically be
given priority. This also applies if spaces are
limited due to a shortage of teachers.
The dark blue circles in the figure opposite
represent the African countries and
demonstrate this unequal girl-boy ratio. In the
same way below, the red areas highlight
countries with less than half the children in
education.
Our Purpose
Our purpose and goal is to put across our
views and perspective on how we want
the world to develop. By taking part in
this challenge we have discovered more
about the past and present, and seen
aspects of our world that we would
otherwise have been ignorant of.
Why change the original goals, even leaving
out something such as ending poverty.
We as a group feel that 8 goals were too
many and because of this progress was
restricted and targets were not met. We
have therefore chosen 5 simple, clear
headings and outlined our goals for
each. This way it is clear what we would
like to happen, and we feel there is more
chance of success.
We all have questions about society and the
way people behave - it is a part of
human nature - but we feel we have
been able to show our purpose and the
perspective of today's youth by making
our goals known.
The View of Others
Different companies and organizations are going to have different views and opinions
dependent on their area of focus. The following are the viewpoints of 2 organizations.
Save the Children:-Nuria Molina
Save the Children believe that the
main 3 things that should be looked
at are:
Reducing inequality
Environmental sustainability
Rich countries taking action
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These varied and diverse points
widely show the recognition of what
needs to change and the most
important features of how to take on
this huge step. If we sit here idly
waiting for something to happen,
while in LEDCs people are dying,
are we really putting our efforts into
making a change? We also only
have one planet and it needs to be
looked after. Changes need to be
made and this is one way to go
about it.
O.D.I. - Research Institute:The O.D.I. feel that the 3 most
important areas to change are:
Listening to people
Getting good jobs and being
protected.
Making governments keep
their promises.
It is all very well for a government to
sit at the top and decide to change
this, this and this. Yet do they
always do as they say? If something
is going to change then support
needs to come from the whole
spectrum of society, from the top to
the bottom. The same applies to
listening to people. The middle point
applies mainly to developing
countries, but is an important point
worldwide. We want to improve and
this is a way to do it.
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Media
If we want this project to be successful people need to
know about it. None of us knew anything about the
Millennium Development goals before they were
mentioned a month ago. Without the support of the
public worldwide nothing is going to be completed.
People NEED to be aware - it is a fact.
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Newspapers
Radio Advertising
Television
Social Networking
Videos
There are hundreds of ways to connect and share
information within the modern day technology. We need
to embrace this and use it to our advantage, to allow
citizens all around the world to know the new goals,
what they entail, and what they can do to help.
The world will not change as a result of words from five
teenagers, but it is possible with support and
knowledge.
THESE ARE OUR
GOALS
IT IS TIME TO ACT