By Albert Oliva, MUN Impact Press Writer and SDG Innovator
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The SDG Inventory is a newly established tool from MUN Impact which aims to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals. You might wonder that everybody in our modern and industrialized world is fully aware of the 2030 agenda and that when setting and establishing a school club occurs it is always with a vision to tackle one of the goals, nevertheless, opposite is the truth as we can hear from MUN Impact director Lisa Martin.
“This past week I had the opportunity to visit a Leadership Academy in Addis Ababa. I met with several club leaders as they shared their activities and community outreach. Each and every one of them were engaged in actions to support the SDGs, in most cases some very specific Targets. These students were only vaguely aware of the SDGs. The Dean of their school told me later that the most prevalent view of the SDGs is that they were something designed by elites and had little direct relevance to common people.“
In order to raise awareness of the goals, and change the attitude of many about them, students around the world were encouraged to use this SDG inventory tool to map one club at their school and track their SDG progress and raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals which are being tackled by this club.
After thinking for a while I have chosen to be for the past two weeks in contact with a MIT Launch initiative led by Novy Porg students called EDEN Hope in Motion. Five brave students took the chance and risk of establishing a new organization in a very short time and promoting it on an international level during the last year and during the last week MIT session which was held in Brussels. EDEN Hope in Motion is aiming through its activities and online app which can be accessed on Android and hopefully very soon on apple, to spread awareness of urgent social and environmental issues and to connect the society with charities and NGOs, all around the world. It’s most recent aim is to organize events and trips which will support jeopardized communities all around the world.
Even though, all 5 students which established and launched this project are aware of what Sustainable development Goals are, they did. Ot really realize to what extent they tackle some of them. Throughout observing their actions and talking with the organizers of EDEN Launch, I can conclude that most three fundamental SDGs tackled by this organization are 12th- Responsible consumption and production, 13th- Climate Actions and to some point of an extent 1st- No Poverty.
And what about future of this organization? We have asked Kristina Savchenko, one of the 5 key figures, which made this idea come true.
In the future, our aim is to make EDEN, more international and establish international routes and trips through which our app will help millions of in need. Currently we are thinking only about conducting trips to Indonesia, however slowly but surely we would like to visit and make beneficial trips to all continents of this world.”
Even though this organization is new and was established just couple of months ago, it has made a tremendous progress and supported solutions to before mentioned Sustainable Development Goals. There should be a greater demand for such organizations and I strongly believe that slowly but surely students will initiate and realize more of their ideas and desires.