Sustainable Development Goals

What are SDGs?

The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. The Goals interconnect and in order to leave no one behind, it ís important that governments and NGOs work towards achieving each Goal and target by 2030.

To learn more: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

Learn how The Family Africa is making a contribution to fulfilling the SDGs throughout Africa.

This is a powerpoint presentation which was given at the United Nations in Geneva:
https://www.slideshare.net/rachelaird/the-family-africa-sd-gs-final

No Poverty

South Africa : Skills training, micro businesses
Ghana and Nigeria: Vocational Training centres
DR Congo : Vocational training, cooperative farming, micro businesses

Zero Hunger

South Africa: feeding schemes for people living with HIV and TB, orphans and vulnerable children and food gardens
Kenya: school lunch programme in slums, care packages for single mothers, and sick and disabled
Nigeria: feeding schemes in orphanages, institutions for disabled and schools
Madagascar: cooperative farming for orphans, breeding rabbits for food, school meals programmes, feeding schemes for orphans and abandoned children
DR Congo: Meal programmes in schools, food packages for new mothers.

Good Health and Well-Being

South Africa: Support groups for people living with HIV and TB, maternal health workshops, HIV awareness in schools and for teachers, NCD (non-communicable diseases) health workshops, family health programmes
Kenya: Health and hygiene awareness programmes and support groups, health training for mothers, health kits for schools
Nigeria: Sponsoring corrective surgeries, supply of equipment for the disabled,
Madagascar: Health and hygiene classes for young offenders, fumigating prisons, providing new beds for prisoners
Nigeria: Health classes and kits for children
DR Congo: Built and run a medical centre including maternal unit with ante and post natal care.

Quality Education

South Africa: Education for life through extensive Early learning Programmes for children, maths and English classes for teenagers, literacy and numeracy classes for adults, teacher enrichment programmes and government accredited training courses
Ghana: Built and run a primary school and secondary school
Nigeria and Ghana: Adult literacy programmes for rural women
Madagascar: Building and renovating schools in rural areas
DR Congo: Built and run primary and secondary schools, conduct literacy and numeracy classes in rural areas, built and run a vocational training centre

Gender Equality

South Africa: Empowerment through education including health literacy, empowerment workshops of girls.
DR Congo: Focus on girls attending and remaining in school, literacy and basic accounting for girls who were not able to attend school.