Work with the first sustainable development goal
- First, your students can help to reflect on what poverty is
- Then they have to decide whether we have poverty in [insert country]. You can use this for further discussion
- Your students can then work with the UN goal. Here it is good to have some thoughts prepared.
- Finally, your students can think about how they can help the world reach its goal
Q: Do we have poverty in [insert country]
Q: What do you think is the UN's target for poverty?
UN's goals
- By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere
- By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
- Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
- By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
- By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
Q: What can you do to help?