Author: Yahya Ibrahima Ndiaye
Country: Senegal
Source: UnitedProject1 Instagram Page
SUMMARY
At the beginning of the years 2000s, lots of initiative were taken by the country’s members of the United Nations to measure how life is improving in each country. One of those initiatives were the implementation of the 8 Millennium Objectives for Development (MOD) which were: extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empowerment of women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and global partnership for development (1). These MODs will later in 2016 become the Sustainable Development Goals which are of total of 17 objectives countries should attain by 2030. Some these SDG include: zero hunger, quality education, clean water and sanitation, climate action, and affordable and clean energy (2).
Every country is trying to uphold their promise to reach these goals by 2030. In the case of Senegal, a lot of nonprofit organizations were born to accompany the efforts of their government. Among those organizations, United Project 1 (UP1), created in November 2018 to bring solutions to solve current humanitarian concerns is in the forefront of empowering the Senegalese youth to remain in the country and make qualitative changes as well encouraging the diaspora to invest in the country in order to meet those goals. During an interview granted the author of this very paper, United Project 1, President Ibrahima Aly Ndiaye and board members of the organization expose the importance of humanitarians as a response to the youth fleeing the country.
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