YOUNG MDG is a project initiative of our team that aims to spread the information of The United Nations Millennium Development Goals to young people. The MDGs was written in 2000, efforts has been made by governments, NGOs and the likes but up to now, VERY FEW people under the age of 18 knows anything about the MDGs! And to think, The UN states that young people are the key-contributors in achieving these goals, but how would they be able to contribute if they don't know what the MDGs are in the first place? That is why we build this website. First, we believe that the Internet's users are more or less 60% young people and we think that this medium can be our tool to let them read about the MDGs, also because we want to reach all corners of the world. Second, we want to layout with them a reference that is NOT boring, we hate thick books without pictures, we hate website with white background and black font! That's why we tried to put a little interactivity on the website and of course put a lot of colors on it! In that way, users who sees the website for the first time will be encourage to read through and actually learn while having fun. We will sight an example: Instead of giving them heavy texts explaining the scientific factor and mathematical statistics of deforestation, we put on our website a “tree calculator” where they can put the number of time they ride transportations everyday and how far, and in return the system puts how many trees should they plant to replace the carbn dioxide they have emmitted throughout the years, and all of it on a colorful and enjoyable tree calculator instead of boring texts!.
What has been the impact of your project on your community?
The impact that our prject has made so fr is something we can consider good. For example, our team members have presented our project on schools, universities, communities and gathering of diplomats and company staffs, after people from their party asked for us to present it to them. Perhaps they have heard of our project and story and they wanted their group to hear from it and maybe learn some lessons. Jaevion for example was invited by his proffessor to present the project idea to his students, Angelicum was invited by a software company in The Philippines to share to the company staffs and workers as part of thei annual workshop how the Young MDG project was realized using Information Technology. For further envissioning, we are hoping this project to have more impact thus making it have a broader grasp of audience. Through our webpage, many children have given us feedback that they want to be in the team and be like the country representative and stuff, we see this as omething humbling knowing that they wanted to be a part because they think it is one of the things they could do to contribute to MDGs, which made us very satisfied that our GOAL was at part achieved! To educate them and inspire them, and finally make them a part of these crusade. Not only from children we get feedbacks, we also have feedbacks from educators and adults saying that they have lkearned a lot and that the website, even if it was made to cater children, is defenietely FOR ADULTS ALSO. Some teachers told us that they will use the puzzles and lesson plan samples we provided on the website, again, another fact that we are now starting to achieve our real purpose!
What has been the impact of your project on your community?
The impact that our prject has made so fr is something we can consider good. For example, our team members have presented our project on schools, universities, communities and gathering of diplomats and company staffs, after people from their party asked for us to present it to them. Perhaps they have heard of our project and story and they wanted their group to hear from it and maybe learn some lessons. Jaevion for example was invited by his proffessor to present the project idea to his students, Angelicum was invited by a software company in The Philippines to share to the company staffs and workers as part of thei annual workshop how the Young MDG project was realized using Information Technology. For further envissioning, we are hoping this project to have more impact thus making it have a broader grasp of audience. Through our webpage, many children have given us feedback that they want to be in the team and be like the country representative and stuff, we see this as omething humbling knowing that they wanted to be a part because they think it is one of the things they could do to contribute to MDGs, which made us very satisfied that our GOAL was at part achieved! To educate them and inspire them, and finally make them a part of these crusade. Not only from children we get feedbacks, we also have feedbacks from educators and adults saying that they have lkearned a lot and that the website, even if it was made to cater children, is defenietely FOR ADULTS ALSO. Some teachers told us that they will use the puzzles and lesson plan samples we provided on the website, again, another fact that we are now starting to achieve our real purpose!
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