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Millennium Development Goals

 

 

MDG Awareness Day 2007- April 20th-

8 years to act, One day to start

 

Some inspiring quotes:

 

  • “Being young is an advantage! You have the inside “scoop” on you generation. You know what concerns youth, which programs work well and which don’t, and how policies and services impact people in your group. Consider yourself an expert! Also, your frank and direct approach will win respect. It only requires that you be innovative and creative and you will be on your way to making a difference”.-Wendy Schaetzel Lesko

 

  • “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to do for it, whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live”.- George Bernard Shaw

 

  • “Young people have to be part of the national and international movement to end poverty. [They] are often the most motivated and inspired activists and have repeatedly shown that when consulted, have the clearest ideas on how to positively change their communities”.-Eveline Herfkens,UN Secretary General's Executive Coordinator for the MDG Campaign

 

  • It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each country by the joint efforts of the Governments and people." -Kofi Annan, immediate past UN Secretary General

 

  • Investing in youth will provide the longest and most effective dividend towards meeting the MDGs by building social capacity for long-term development."-Ad Hoc Working Group for Youth and the MDGs

 

  • "Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his own community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken...,The great secret of his career has been that he has flung his whole life, not a part of it, with all the determination and energy and power he could muster, into everything he has undertaken”.- Orison Sweet Marden

 

  • "Almost Everything that is great has been done by Youth" -Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

Presented by:  One World Youth Project Ambassador, Michael Boampong

 

 

 



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