settinggoalsresponses

What are the UN Millennium Development Goals? worksheet.

Perfect Youth Group of Arusha, Tanzania

Setting Goals,Builiding Solution.

How would you describe your community?

I describe my community as the place where I can start to make changes and then go out for more changes and it’s a nice place for my life.

By Rashid Ramadhan PYG & Mr. Joachim

PERFECT YOUTH GROUP IN TRADITIONAL DANCE CLOTHES

What do you like most about your Community?

Music
Games
Friendship
Teaching the youth
Traditional Dances
Youth Group

By Happiness Lawrence (PYG)

What are your concerns for the Local Community?

Am Concerns as some very special for the community changes :-

Maintain my Environment
Teaching Community Members of the Perfect Youth Group in traditional dance clothes
Working with youth to the center
Narrating stories with youth
Play games with youth

By Erick (PYG)

What Problems do I see?

Lack of Capital to my Community
Poverty
Ignorance due to lack of Education
HIV/AIDS.
Drugs abuse for youth.
Crimes in Community
Environmental Pollutions
Laziness

By Daniel Mwita, Josephat Tairo, Fauster Abdi

What goals could you set to lessen the Impact of these problems or eliminate your concerns?

The goals I set to lessen the impact of these problems or eliminate my concerns, I have set more goals which could not eliminate my concerns such as value my youth period, get education which could help me to be strong, Avoiding sexual intercourse which could protect me from HIV/AIDS, So it cant eliminate my concerns.

By Saumu Sadala, Abdu

Now, take your notes and ideas and formulate them into eight goals for your Local Community to be reached by 2015.

To have Primary and Secondary Schools near by our Local Community.
To have a Tarmac roads.
To have the employment opportunities around local Community.
Have better social services i.e. Water, Power e.t.c
Having Better Housing.
Living in a better standard of life.
To own the transportation equipments such as cars, Buses e.t.c
To be Close with the communication networks such as Internet Windows,Cellphones,Satelites

By Saumu Khaji, Hamza Suleman, Brian Cosmas, Shangwe Frank (PYG)

Are your Ideas Similar :-

Yes they are, as I tried to share with them they just think about what am thinking.

By ALL PERFECT YOUTH GROUP (PYG) MEMBERS FROM DR. HERMAN YOUTH EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE.

James River High School of Midlothian, Virginia, USA

Setting Goals, Building Solutions

Our class of 36 students worked in small groups to answer these questions regarding our community. These are the answers from our students.

How would you describe your community? Clean, safe, respectable, and affluent; suburbs, town shelter, located in the south, hospitable, family oriented, go by daily routines, good schools, great opportunities, and self-serving
What do you like most about your community? Low crime rate, good education, public service, trees, nice people, close-knit/unity, sense of security, support of community, opportunity
What do you like least? No sidewalks, rumors/gossip, everyone is busy, predictability, nosy people, use of hard drugs, teen drinking, STDs, neglect, selfishness
What are your concerns for the local community? What problems do you see? Lots of new housing communities being built, lack of planning, not much to do, trivial fights, crowded schools, drunk driving, not diverse enough, too dependent on gasoline, drug involvement, morals decreasing, less people are going to church, influences on kids in underprivileged areas, not enough public transportation, weight issues/obesity, social and academic pressure
Goals:

More mass transit programs
Increase awareness of world issues
More community “hang-out spots”
Job/volunteer opportunities
Alternate fuel source
More high schools for overcrowding
Reduce violence among youth
Decrease crime rate
Raise taxes on construction companies
Better police force
More mentorship opportunities
Equal respect for everyone

Submitted by Kimberly Chancellor, James River High School, Midlothian, VA

Brigada da Natureza of Fortaleza, Brazil

1) How would you describe your community?

The community has a great social iniquality, total abandoment of the whole community, pollution in some parts of the beaches and mangroves, hunger, lack of health and maternity care, however it is a beautiful place with a lot of nature mangroves, dunes, and beautiful beaches and we live in contact with nature every day. There are also churches, two public schools kindergarden a square, a cultural center. a small market. hotels and the ecological camp of SESC Iparana.

2) What do you like the most abut your community? Least?

We like the nature, the beaches, mangroves, the beautiful sunset, animals,the lakes surf the dolphins and the calmness at night .The noise is much less than a big city.

The community has a great social inaquality and total abandonment of the government as there isnt basic sewage system and most of the sewage go directly to the sea, a lot of garbage around, not enough public telephones, removal of the dune system used for the construction companies the removal of trees and fires in the mangroves. The high unemployment rate lack of medicines and the spead of diseases due to the amount of garbage is also a big problem

3) What are your concerns for the local community? What problems do you see? List five to eight concerns.

Our main concerns are the great social inaquality, the garbage the removal of the dune system, the high unemployment, diseases the sewage system is poor and the community live with these problems and do nothing to solve it.

4) What goals could you set to lessen the impact of these problems or eliminate your concerns?

Organize a big gathering involving our group, the community restaurants schools young and old people the prefecture and have different activities so that everyone gets involved. to talk about the problems of the community and how these can be resolved, so than we start to make people aware of the problem. Listen to all sides and take notes.Call TV and radio for the event. Think of a slogan for the event.
Organize and get in contact with interested members that want to be involved in the event. and start looking for sponsors that woulld like to sponsor the event.
In the event write down telephone numbers of members willing to participate in monthly meetings for a better Iparana.

Start to call companies to see if they can help to collect the garbage.

Start from home: teenagers teaching parents about the selection of garbage.

Protest in front of the prefecture demanding better heath and sewage systems. And organize a meeting with the mayor of the community .

Start having monthly reunions with community and everyone that wants to be involved for a better Iparana. Organize people legate obligations and start to notice community leaders.