It's so pleasing for the ear and relinquishing to the soul that somehow, there are still a lot of people longing to implement development and goes 'thumbs up' for very lovely changes for the betterment of the world. xD
The one I'm talking about is what my teacher and classmates discussed for the past few weeks in DC 1 class...
==> the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nation's Organization.
To mention, here are the goals
+Goal 1: Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
+Goal 2: Achieving universal primary education
+Goal 3: Promoting gender equality and empowering women
+Goal 4: Reducing child mortality
+Goal 5: Improving maternal health
+Goal 6: Combating HIV /AIDS, malaria and other diseases
+Goal 7: Ensuring environmental sustainability
+Goal 8: Developing global partnerships for development
Of all these, the very goal that blew me off my seat and my very heart is the goal that says " Reduce Child Mortality"
Based on data from the Technical Working Group on Maternal and Child Mortality, under-five mortality rate (U5MR) was 80 deaths per 1,000 live births for 1990. This rate declined to 48 in 1998 and to 42 in 2003. In 2006, using results of the Family Planning Survey (FPS) of NSO, the rate fell down further to 32 deaths per 1,000 live births. For the period 1990-2006, the decline was about 60 percent. This suggests a high likelihood of meeting the target of 26.7 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2015. (http://www.undp.org.ph/target05.php)
Imagine a lot of moms in the world who'd mourn all because their children died of some very preventable disease, only that they had no enough resources.
Those children could have lived. those children could have played and enjoyed life.
Those children could' have been our friends. Those children could have studied and been the best presidents in Asia or in the world!
See how much the world missed by letting those children die in pain just because of preventable diseases?
Our country is indeed 'over populated'. But heck do we care? If these over populating shenanigans would then be the only way to let our hearts wake up of the reality that development is just within reach, if we start it with ourselves.
A little help gives a life.
That goal may have been very powerful to let me feel this unexplainable emotion. But one best thing's for sure.. it managed me to live this life out of it. To move and help. To stop and ponder. And to go for development.
i dont know.
14 years ago