MDGs & You Final Publication (Action Project 4)

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GCE & MDGs: How Do They Relate toMe?

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Introduction/Term 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and HungerAchieve Universal Primary Education

Term 2: Promote Gender Equality and Empower WomenImprove Maternal Health

Term 3: Reduce Child Mortality

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

Term 4: Ensure Environmental SustainabilityDevelop A Global Partnership for development


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INTRODUCTIONIn 2000, the United Nations held a summit to discuss what the UN has been doing at the turn of the century. Threedays later, the UN made 8 Millennium Development Goals. 189 countries agreed to work together towards

accomplishing these goals. These goals are to be accomplish by the year of 2015.The 8 MDGs are the following:

1.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2.Achieve universal primary education

3.Promote gender equality and empower women

4.Reduce child mortality

5.Improve maternal health

6.Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

7.Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Develop a global partnership for development

The goals that the UN have set are very broad, but the UN also set targets that they want to accomplish and certainindicators that will allow them to track the progress they are making on the MDGs. In the making of this publication, weexplored the meaning of MDGs on a local, national, and international levels. We divided this publication into 8 sectionsfor each MDG. There are three different forms of work throughout the whole publication: a review on an articleconnected to the MDG, a Local or Country profile on how an MDG is being achieved, and a poem relating to an MDG.

We also created illustrations and graphs to help you understand the texts.Throughout the time it took to make this project, our class learned a lot about MDGs and how they are affecting theworld. By working on these projects, we all learned about the struggles people are having in the world. We learned bydoing these projects that maybe we have to make the change to make the world a better place.


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Eradicate Extreme Hunger & Poverty

MDGs 1 is about finding ways to get rid ofextreme poverty and hunger. Extreme povertyis the most severe state of poverty. It is when

many cannot meet their basic need, which caninclude food, shelter, and health care. Thereare many ways this target is being achieved.Governments and private organizations are

tackling this issue with distributions of food andraising the employment rate.


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1.Eradicate Extreme Hunger & Poverty

More than 1 billion people are hungry in the world

by: Abhijit Banerjee, Estar DufloPublication:Foreign policy

Date:May/June 2011

Location: Global

The main issue the article addresses is that all around the worldpeople go to sleep hungry each day. Also relating to what is calleda poverty trap. The factors that led up to this predicament in poor

countries are hot, infertile, and landlocked areas. This would makeit hard to grow crops. The little crops grown, the higher the prices.

I can see this article in my everyday life because there are peoplejust walking around in the streets asking for money for food. Thisrelates to the water course because without water, crops cannot begrown, leading to hunger.

This article does not propose any solutions because they feelpeople aren't hungry ,they just dont eat healthy foods. People also

feel that its the poors fault that they are hungry because they'drather have a TV than food. They believe the people arent reallystarving, they think they have enough calories each day to survive.

One solution I have is trying to raise money to start feedingpeople locally, and globally. I like helping people, so if there was anevent that would contribute to ending the problem, I would mostlikely volunteer to help. GN(2012)

Article of the Week-KG

A bowl of soup represented this MDGbest, because usually when we think of

food we think of a bowl.


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This Local Profile shows how one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is being pursued in Chicago. MDG 1.3 aims to

ensure that Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. (U.N. Target 2015 Plan) To show

how this Goal is being addressed in Chicago, I made a graph of local statistics, interviewed an expert on the issue, and analyzed

an excerpt from the news on the Goal.

The graph to the right shows the food insecurity percentages in Cook County. 16.1% of the people in Cook County are insecure

when it comes to where their food will come from. That is a lot of people, considering all people who live in the county. This shows

that while there are people who can provide food for themselves, there are still people who cannot provide food for themselves

because of issues they face. This graph relates to my topic because it shows that people have food security.

In Chicago, many people don't know where their next meal is coming from. On September 7, 2012 NPR did a news report about

a Panera Caf program called Panera Cares. In the article, they do not talk about the program meeting MDG 1.3 but it focuses

on how it helps middle and lower class families with food insecurity. The Panera Cares is a normal Panera Caf but, instead of

having cash registers, they have donation boxes. People are usually confused when they see these. There is a suggested

donation that goes with each item but if you donate less or nothing, its fine. They are funded completely by donations and if theyreceive extra, the funds go to local charities. Panera Cares relates to MDG 1.3 because it makes the community aware of food

insecurity in their area and it allows common people to change where other people get their next meal.

I interviewed an expert on MDG 1.3. Her name is Keisha Watson. She is a board member of The Night Ministry. The Night

Ministry is a nonprofit organization that is all about providing housing, food, healthcare, and connections to people who suffer with

poverty and/or homelessness. Ms. Watson did not know what MDGs were. When I asked Ms. Watson if she had experienced

anything like this project before, she said she never experienced what they were been doing. She said, I have never experienced

such an amazing thing. We offer so much for people we don't really know. It really has a great effect on the community. When I

asked about the people they help and their access to local resources, she said that a lot of people in the community don't have

access to local resources because of money issues that interfere with their lives.After my interview and research, I have found that most of the ways that hunger is being resolved in Chicago, is not by the

government but by private groups and charities. The fact that the government isn't trying to help solve this huge problem is

probably why many people in Chicago are suffering with hunger. That is why the problem is still becoming harder to solve. After

doing this work with MDG 1.3, I see the people of Chicago are taking more steps towards fighting hunger while the government

doesnt really care so I see that the government is failing in solving this issue. Now that I know more about how hunger is being

solved, I can contribute to solutions to get rid of it in Chicago and in my world.

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Eradicate Extreme Hunger & Poverty


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2. Achieve Universal PrimaryEducation

The second MDG focuses on making sure thateveryone is able to complete full primary schoolfor every boys and girls. The way we talked

about this MDG, is by writing a local profile thatshows the local issues of education.


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"I interviewed David A. Jackson, Senior Investigative Reporter for the

Chicago Tribune and Pulitzer Prize Winner. The questions that I asked Davewere How do your stories relate to MDGs and what type of writing do you doon the problems of education in Chicago and beyond? Over the past twodecades, my work as a reporter has been an effort to expose corruption,injustice and human suffering. In general, the goals of my work are not derivedfrom the MDGs but can be thought of as complementary. However, I amcurrently working on an investigative project that relates directly to one of theMDGs achieving universal primary education.

This project seeks to examine the lives of youth in K-8th grade who miss

months and even years of elementary school, and to understand the impact oftheir absence on them, on schools and society. How do you think kids will geta better education in Chicago when the public school teachers are/were onstrike? There is a great deal of dispute about whether the strike helped or hurtstudents. Both the teachers union and the administration claim that helpingstudent was their primary objective and goal.

How do you think teachers reacted when people asked them specificquestions about if they will go back to teach? Teachers generally did theirbest to express their views about the strike. The views of teachers who were

quoted varied widely. Teachers were trying in general to defend the union'sdecision to strike, and give voice to concerns and anger they felt about andconditions in public school classrooms. How do you think we can get teachersto put more time and effort to teach the kids? Teaching is a profession thatdraws idealistic people, but in order to sustain a career, teachers must be fairlycompensated and also valued by society as a whole.

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2. Achieve Universal PrimaryEducation


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3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY &EMPOWER WOMEN

MDG 3 focuses more on promoting genderequality and empowering women. The hope isto eliminate gender differences in primary and

secondary education, employ women at anequal wage as men, and to have an equalproportion of women in government positions.The way we tackled this MDG was by writing acountry profile that covered the topic.


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PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY &EMPOWER WOMEN

In a recent conversation I had with Elenanoria, she said, "Where I grew up is very much like Chicago. You have

people who are well dressed and you see people begging for money on the streets." She informed me that when she

went to school, all of her classes had half and half, boys and girls. I also discovered that if a student attends their

neighborhood school, the student has to advance into the next grade, even if they don't understand the material they're

learning. There is no such thing as failing. I think there wouldn't be any benefits of going to a school such as this one

because this student wouldn't really have a future full of opportunities. These students who aren't understanding the

material being taught, are advancing to the next grade, but they aren't a step ahead.

In my opinion equality can vary in definition depending on the subject of the matter or the situation its placed in. I

think equality means to have a balance between things. I think equality, in this case, means that both genders, male

and female, have the same amount of respect and opportunities. After gathering all of my information, I've discovered

that Brazil has been contributing to promote gender equality, especially in education.

Country Profile Portion-KG

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PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY &EMPOWER WOMEN

Today gender equality in Taiwan is great compared to what it was in the past. For example if it wasn'tfor one law that was put in place in 1997, Taiwan could be a complete different country. That one lawwas called Moe; a law that makes school put 4 hours of gender equality education a semester. In anarticle I found online called Going To School In East Asia had a really great paragraph that stood out tome about the Moe Act.

Ministry of Education (MOE) also stressed globalization in higher education. Taiwan followed theworld trend of higher education globalization, redirected the aim of education toward market-oriented.Lessening government control and integrating social demand with market forces, Taiwanese educationin the 1990s has been influenced by globalization to a great extent. Also, began in 2003,MOE started to

promote a World Class Research University project, proposing to upgrade at least one of theuniversities in Taiwan be ranked among the top 100 leading international institutions of higher educationwithin the next 10 years. Universities are required to establish a system of evaluation using methods asthe SCI, SSCI, and the EI, or to be in accordance with the standards that meet international recognitionfor awards, achievements, and contributions within their field of expertise. In 2005, MOE granted NT$50billion (equals US$1.56 billion) to 12 universities in the following five years to empower their researchcapacity to reach the world class level.

That might not seem like a lot, but compared to nothing a year, it is a good change. Since then,education for girls and women have increased dramatically. This has not only changed education

dramatically but this has changed life completely. For example parents in Taiwan always wanted to haveboys instead of girls so they could not only carry their family name but so they can own any of the familyproperty in the future.

Below please view my maps that I created that shows us how much gender equality improves, as thecountry gets darker and darker as years go by. You can see in map one the Taiwan is lightly highlighted,that is because, female participation in primary education in 1950 was at its all time low at 39 percent. Asyears go by you can see that in map to, the shade of the country gets darker, and thats because, it

jumped a remarkable 10 percent in 21 years. As we get to the present, it has gotten very dark becauseTaiwan was able to keep that percentage of 48 for about 4 decades.

Country Profile-MML


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4. MATERNAL HEALTH

The purpose MDG 5 is to improve maternalhealth. The goal to improve maternal healthincludes reducing the maternal mortality ratio

by three quarters and achieving universal toreproductive health care. We completed aninterview with a local expert and written in acountry profile for MDG 5.


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MATERNAL HEALTHTitle: Maternal Deaths Decline Sharply Across the Globe

Author: Denise GradyDate: April 13, 2010Publisher: New York Times

Where: Several Countries

Fewer women are dying while giving birth, it went from 526,300 in1980 to 342,900 in 2008 that is good but I feel that is still way toohigh. The reason women are dying while giving birth is becausemost doctors charge way too much and some women can't affordto pay for the doctors to deliver their baby or maybe there aredifficulties that doctors cant fix.

I can connect this with my life because in the article the unnamedsources planned how to give the news and sometimes you haveto give bad news or good news but you have to think of how totell someone because you never know their reaction. I canconnect this to my GCE Water course we are studying the pH inwater. I can connect this to the article because if a pregnantwoman swims in water that has a dangerous pH level, it mightaffect the birth process.

The article states solutions to solve the problem such as:- lower pregnancy rates- higher income- more education for women- the increased availability of skilled attendantsbut in my opinion, I think they should make doctors cheaper sopregnant women can safely give birth. Something that we coulddo is start a worldwide petition to make the doctors cheaper andmore affordable and maybe we will achieve our goal.

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Article of the Week-BKJ


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5. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

The purpose of MDG 4 is to reduce childmortality. The UN is working towards reducingtwo-thirds of the childs mortality rate of kids

under five by 2015 .The way we learned thisMDG was by writing a country profile thatcovered the topic.


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REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY

Zambia: 'Women, Child Mortality to Reduce'

Author:Catherine Nyirenda

Publication:

Date:October 10, 2012

Location:Zambia

Child mortality are attributable to many causes:diarrhoea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, pretermdelivery, or lack of oxygen at birth. These deaths occurmainly in developing country. A Chadian child is more likelyto die by his fifth birthday. The majority of these death arepreventable. Malnutrition, lack of clean water andsanitation contribute to these child deaths. There are manysolutions to this issue: improving family care, increasingaccess to water and sanitation. We need to helpsstrengthen policies and budgets and support technicalcapacities in programmes for hygiene promotion, sanitation,cost-effective water supply options and water quality,particularly for poor rural and urban families. Theseactivities also aim toward fulfilling Millennium. This target isrelated with my water class, we learned about how the lackof access to water is affecting the world.While living in

Africa, i have witness many kids dying from the easiestdisease to cure. Once, this kid died because he gotscratched, his wound got infected and it got swollen and hechoked.

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6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS AND OTHERDISEASES

MDG 6 is about fighting diseases likeHIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases in theworld. For many of the diseases, it includesmaking treatment available for everyone. One

way this MDG is being achieved is by the SouthAfrican government making the AIDS/HIVtreatment available to everyone. It is still hardfor people to get the drugs because the centersare so far from each other. We'vedemonstrated this is by writing poems in groupsand creating illustrations that help interpret its'

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COMBAT HIV/AIDS AND OTHERDISEASES

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Annan Bemoans Efforts to Combat HIV/AIDSLiz Neisloss

Thursday, June 2, 2005

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Global

The main issue in this article is that the director from the UNAIDS organization Peter Piot thinks that leaders of thisworld need to pay attention to this epidemic as if it was a threat or a crisis. Mr. Piot said that there is a funding gap

with HIV/Aids and the gap have hit billions of dollars. He feels like things that have lead up to this are programs that arenot efficient enough to help the people in need. Not only that but the money that is owed to people that need treatmenthave not been paid.

I feel like I see this in my life in a lot of ways from education in Chicago to gender equality in Taiwan. You can see thisin education in Chicago because multiple public school do not offer programs that are needed for students and thatmust change. You can see this in gender equality in Taiwan because women were not and still not be in some casesthe most favored gender in the country because of multiple personal things from keeping the family name to being ableto keep the family house. This shows that things that need to change that are extremely big need to be changedimmediately.

This connects to my Spanish class because we are studying not only our neighborhood but also other that we livearound. During this process, I have bumped into a lot of history taken place that has showed to consistent help. Forexample, people felt like they had the need to move out of their house because of factories put around them, they triedto keep their neighborhood clean by taking actions with the city, but it never worked out.

Solutions to that article have proposed is to connect with the UN to try to get some world leaders to start new programs,which have succeeded. There are great treatment programs in Brazil, Cambodia, and Thailand. Personally, I feel likethe organization need to take it in their own hands and try to get in contact with some leaders that they have connectedto in the past like Brazil, Cambodia, and Thailand. I feel like some skills I can offer are helping contact other leaders byemailing, letters, calling, etc.


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COMBAT HIV AIDS AND OTHERDISEASES

As individuals

lets stand and fight

Get tested before its too late

and Spread the message

HIV is real

AIDS is deadly

But both can be prevented

For our MDGs Unit 3 Action Project, we wrote a poem and created an illustration

to educate others about a target and indicator. We chose MDG 6, Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access totreatment for HIV/AIDS . We pulled information from four sources, the world factbook (HIV/AIDS - ADULT

PREVALENCE RATE, 2009), the World Health Organization (10 facts on HIV/AIDS,2011), and Avert website

(Universal Access to AIDS Treatment: Targets and Challenges, 2011). We hope you enjoy our poetry and illustration.

HIV

a silent killer

its a leech that latches to your body andgrasps you

it sucks away your humanity

Its not easy to cure

It becomes your shadow

once you get it

It follows you forever

and gets emotionally attached

HIV is what you will get

AIDS is what comes next

6.65 million people have access to antiretroviraltherapy

but 7 million are still in need of it

26% adults in Swaziland are infected

and that is the highest percentage in the world

Millions of people die each day in the world

we will find a cure

and we will win the war

Tell the worldwe will find a cure

and we will win this was

Project as Action-MY


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7. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTALSUSTAINABILITY

MDG 7 is about environmental sustainabilitywhich includes getting more clean water andsanitation, reverse the loss of biodiversity,

improve the live of 100 million people who livein slums. This is being achieved by privategroups such as Truck Farm because they areplanting natural farm plants which helps sustainnatural biodiversity. The way we talked aboutthis MDG is through writing reviews on articlesthat were written focusing on MDG 7.


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Environmental SustainabilityFor this Weekly Prep, I chose to focus on the topic of

environmental sustainability, which is MDG target 7. I found an

article written on October 19, 2012 by Angela Bender. This article

is titled Naperville Living and it discusses two families who are

working together on their homes in Naperville and how they are

taking it upon themselves to have an environmentally friendly

households.

The issue this article speaks to is the eagerness to help the

environment. One of the houses is home to man named Andrew

Close, who has been in solar energy since he was young. When

he met up with the other family the article focuses on, they decided

to help each other out and learn from each other, seeing as they

were both interesting in green homes. Close learned much from

the Illinois Solar Energy Association, discovering other ways of

turning his home green, for example replacing regular light bulbs

with LEDs.

The article describes the process of putting in solar panels as

being relatively simple, Close said that having solar panels

installed was no different than taking on any other home

improvement building project. The installer took care of getting thepermits and inspections while the Closes got the project approved

by their homeowners association. And less than a year after they

moved into their home, the Close family had 14 panels sitting

completely flush on the roof in the back of their house. This shows

that it really isn't too much work! I always think the environmentally

friendly way is the better way, and I am interested in looking into

this project more, maybe for my house when I'm old enough to

have one.

BKJ(2012)

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8. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FORDEVELOPMENT

MDG 8 focuses on developing a fair, globaleconomy, addressing the needs of the leastdeveloped countries like small islands. For this

goal we did a field experience to the globalworld concern. We also wrote reviews thatfocuses on that MDG.


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GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FORDEVELOPMENT

Reflection on Global Concern

Going to global concern convention was an exceptional experience.It was both entertaining and educational.The global concernconvention taught me a lot about global cooperation andcollaboration. in the beginning of the workshop there was a senseof competition. This is comparable to the real world. Students arealways hearing comments about how advanced the Chinese areand how they should weigh against another.

This experience was supposed to teach me about collaboration andcooperation. We took many steps into accomplishing ourpresentation. We nominated someone with experience that hadtaken part in these similar activities. We believed that by eliminatinga specific issue, it will formulate a base. With the currency left, weerected a program that will strengthen health care.

Overall, everyone in my group had a voice. Everyone was openedto new ideas and learning from each others point of views. We hadgreat collaboration and cooperation. Cooperation was an importantfactor in our group, and as a result we had increasing productivity.Because of our agreement and coordination we were able toaccomplish a great plan and presentation on global issuesconcerning water and health care.

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