The outreach program attracted close to 50 youth from the Serua/Namosi province.
The program, which has been targeted at scaling up citizen monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals at the local level, has been described as a success by participants.
Children Stand Up for MDGs
As dawn broke over Kok, Papua New Guinea last Friday, 300 children and their teachers and friends gathered at Ela Beach in Port Moresby to welcome the new day by showing their support for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Their motivation for getting up at 4:30am, and even camping out at their school for the Dawn Service, was to remember the eight goals that world leaders from Papua New Guinea and 188 other member states of the United Nations committed to in 2000 and agreed to achieve by 2010. The goals are aimed at improving the lives of the world’s poorest.
On Saturday September 18, a fantastic group of Melbourne Make Poverty History volunteers met in the city to hold a Stand Up Flash mob in the middle of the central business district. Armed with musical instruments, whistles and pots to bang, the volunteers spread themselves out through the Bourke Street mall, chatting, window shopping and melting into the general shopping crowd.
As the clocked ticked to 1:00 pm, the "flashmobbers" scattered amongst the Saturday shoppers began to blow whistles and make noise for the Millennium Development Goals.
This is the message echoed by hundreds of people, young and old, who turned up for the “Stand Up, Take Action, Make Noise” march in Suva. The march aimed to create more awareness that world leaders must realize that more needs to be done in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Nearly 100 people from all walks of life took part in the march which started from the Flea Market and ended at the Sukuna Park in Suva.
The videos were produced by UNDP and UNMC Pacific in partnership with the government of Fiji and Fiji TV (the first permanent television broadcasting network in the country). They illustrate the success stories of the MDG implementation in the country, taking stock of the achievements as well as challenges in the past so that the lessons learned will lead to accelerated progress towards achievement of the MDGs for all.
