The Millennium Development Goals that are addressed in my Essay

MDG 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

The Goal: Achieve Universal Primary Education

What Do We Want To Achieve?

• Ensure that all children, boys and girls alike, can complete a full course of primary schooling

What Have We Already Achieved?

• Between 1999 and 2009, 43 million children worldwide were enrolled in primary education
• The rate of enrollment in sub-Saharan African has increased from 58 to 76 per cent
• Some of the most impoverished countries are those that have most advanced the access to universal primary education

What Challenges Remain?

• There are still 61 million children left to enroll in schooling worldwide and more than half of them live in sub-Saharan Africa
• The youth illiteracy rate exceeds more than 120 million people worldwide

What we want to achieve is slowing getting their, and have achieved is slowing happening. To achieve goals like primary education for all it takes not only time and money but patience and dedication. Change takes time and time is a huge factor as for those consumers whom do not have time this can negatively impact their lives. 

MDG 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

The Goal: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

What Do We Want To Achieve?

• Incorporate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse the loss of environmental resources

• Decrease biodiversity loss
• Reduce the number of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by half
• Improve the lives of at least 100 million people who live in slums by 2020

What Have We Already Achieved?

• In 2010, 89% of the world’s population, about 6.1 billion people, had access to safe drinking water. In 2015, that number will increase to include 92% of the world’s population
• We have improved the lives of more than 200 million people living in slums
• 1,800 people have gained access to basic sanitation

What Challenges Remain?

• 2.6 billion people remain without access to healthcare
• 17,000 species of plants and animals are endangered
• The atmospheric levels of substances that destroy the ozone layer could increase 10-fold by 2015

This shows how countries are developing and contributing towards changing and solving these problems within society. Incorporating sustainable practices is hard in the begging because everyone needs to be on the same page and want to achieve the same thing. It takes time, education and money and support from those whom have the financial means. Sustaining our environment for future generations is not easy and needs to be addressed now before it is beyond our control.

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