Global Goals - Fight Poverty
At school, we are learning about the SDG's, Sustainable Development Goals. They are a set of goals that the United Nations and we are trying to achieve by 2030. Some basic history of these goals and how they came about. In 2000, the UN created eight world goals called the Millennium Development Goals. These goals were meant to be reviewed in 2015 and after the revision, the goals would finish, the program would stop running.
Global Goals - Fight Poverty
Later in the year, they created the SDG’s. These goals would be similar to the Millennium goals but with extra thought added on and using their reflections on the MDG Goals, they would act on that. In 15 years they would review the SDG’s and probably create even more goals. From the 8 MDG Goals, they evolved to a 17 SDG Goals.
These are the goals:
1. No Poverty
2. Zero Hunger
3. Good Health and Well-Being
4. Quality Education
5. Gender Equality
6. Clean Water and Sanitation
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10. Reduced Inequalities
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
12. Responsible Consumption and Production
13. Climate Action
14. Life Below Water
15. Life on Land
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
17. Partnerships for the Goals
At our class, we studied the first Global Goal. Poverty.
Global Goals - Fight Poverty
To the people who are reading this, you are probably fortunate enough to have a house to live in and food in your stomach, but may not know what poverty is, because you aren't affected by it. By the Google definition, poverty is...
1. the state of being extremely poor.
2. the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount.
This means that the readers of this article probably aren't in poverty. But the people who are in poverty are very unfortunate. They are children and adults whose home have been destroyed from the barrages of war. They flee to temporary shelters set up by the donating foundations, like World Vision, Oxfam, UNICEF and Red Cross. Lucky families live off of $40 per week (money donated by the organisations) and some live off none.
Facts of poverty:
1. Half the world is in poverty. That is over three billion people in poverty with no home to live in and no food to eat.
2. It is estimated by UNICEF that 22,000 kids die every day due to poverty.
3. Over 550 billion dollars was spent by the US to try help poverty, but that still wasn't enough.
Global Goals - Fight Poverty
4. Preventable diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia kill 2 million children a year because they don't have sufficient health care and medical attention.
5. Oxfam estimates that it would take $60 billion annually to end extreme global poverty - that's less than 1/4 the income of the top 100 richest billionaires.
So now you see the severeness of world poverty. Help these kids by conserving the things you use and if you can, donate to foundations that support poverty.
What did these kids do to deserve this?
Nothing.
在学校，我们正在了解可持续发展目标的可持续发展目标。它们是联合国和我们到2030年试图实现的一组目标。这些目标的一些基本历史以及它们是如何产生的。 2000年，联合国制定了八项世界目标，称为千年发展目标。这些目标旨在于2015年进行审核，修改后目标将完成，程序将停止运行。
Global Goals - Fight Poverty
今年晚些时候，他们创建了可持续发展目标。这些目标与千年发展目标类似，但是如果在千年发展目标的基础上增加额外的思考和反思，他们就会采取行动。 15年后，他们将审查可持续发展目标，并可能创造更多目标。从8个千年发展目标中，他们演变成17个可持续发展目标。
这些是目标：
1.没有贫穷
2.零饥饿
3.健康和幸福
4.素质教育
5.性别平等
6.清洁饮水和卫生
7.经济和清洁能源
8.体面劳动和经济增长
9.工业，创新和基础设施
10.减少不平等
11.可持续城市和社区
12.负责任的消费和生产
13.气候行动
14.水下生活
15.陆地生活
16.和平，正义和强有力的机构
17.为目标建立伙伴关系
在我们班，我们学习了第一个全球目标。贫穷。
对于正在阅读这本书的人来说，你可能有幸能够拥有住房和食物，但不知道贫穷是什么，因为你不受它的影响。根据Google的定义，贫穷是......
1.极度贫穷的状态
质量低劣或数量不足的状态
这意味着这篇文章的读者可能没有陷入贫困。但贫穷的人是非常不幸的。他们是儿童和成年人，他们的家园已经从战争的围墙中被摧毁。他们逃到捐赠基金会设立的临时庇护所，如世界宣明会，乐施会，联合国儿童基金会和红十字会。幸运的家庭每周生活费用为40美元（由各组织捐赠的钱），有些则没有生活费。
贫穷的事实：
1.世界有一半处于贫困状态。这是超过30亿贫困人口，无家可归，无食可食。
2.据联合国儿童基金会估计，由于贫困，每天有22,000名儿童死亡。
3.美国花费了超过5500亿美元试图帮助贫困，但这还不够。
4.可预防的疾病，如腹泻和肺炎，每年可使200万儿童因为没有足够的医疗保健和医疗照顾而丧生。
5.乐施会估计，每年将花费600亿美元来结束极端的全球贫困 - 这不到全球前100位最富有的亿万富翁收入的四分之一。
Global Goals - Fight Poverty
所以现在你看到了世界贫困的严重性。通过节约您使用的东西来帮助这些孩子，如果可以的话，捐赠给支持贫困的基金会。
这些孩子做了什么值得这样做？
没有。
