The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of targeted interventions by countries of which the primary goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger. However this goal, like some other SDGs, is threatened by a changing climate which has already led to an increase in extreme weather events including droughts in the Sahel region of Africa and tropical storms of great severity in the Caribbean.
A changing climate could also result in a decline in biodiversity with up to one million species threatened with extinction and a consequent loss in biological resources which feed and clothe us and provide housing materials, medicines and spiritual nourishment.
The global aim of the SDG agreement, approved at a special meeting of the UN General Assembly in September 2015, was to implement a set of actions to help those in need and leave no one behind.
Scouts for SDGs forms the basis of the commitment by World Organisation of Scout Movements to coordinate the activities of its members, a mobilisation of 50 million Scouts, to make the world’s largest coordinated youth contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
To mark the Millennium and subsequently fifteen years later, the United Nations agreed a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help those in need while at the same time protecting the environment and leaving no one behind.
One of these Goals is to be able to access clean water in order to lead a healthy life. Though the number of people who lack access to clean water has halved in the past 20 years, there are still one billion people who lack access to clean water. This not only impacts their health but also their resistance to water borne diseases and viruses. So these on line resources will help you to learn about the importance of water in leading a healthy life but also what you can do to help others to gain access to clean water supplies.
In this way each of us can help others whom we may never meet, but who will always be grateful to those who helped them live a normal life.
If you are a member of the Scout Association, your involvement will help our global project, Scouts for SDGs, initiated by the World Organisation of Scouting Movements to undertake by 2030, three billion hours of voluntary work by our 50 million members.
