Global goals: Can you do me a favour please?

This week in New York City the Global Goals will be formally adopted by the 193 member states of the United Nations.  What are the Global Goals you are probably wondering and I’ll forgive you for not having any idea as sadly they have not been publicised as highly as I feel they should be here in the UK.

The Global Goals set out to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years –

1. End extreme poverty.

2. Fight inequality & injustice.

3. Fix climate change.

If the goals are met, they ensure the health, safety and future of the planet for everyone on it, but if the goals are to be achieved, everyone needs to know about them. You can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are and this is where I need your help.

Take a look at this short video and you can see what success has come about in the last 15 years because of the millennium development goals. They set the ball rolling in 2000 and now it is time they are revised and refreshed, hence the Global Goals.

Share your #GlobalGoals Selfie

This week thousands of people around the globe are sharing a selfie to help raise awareness of the Global Goals (remember we want to make them famous, so that world leaders have to act on them and keep their promises).

Choose the goal that appeals to you most (see the image of the 17 goals below), snap a picture and share it socially, ideally on Saturday 26th September (but realistically anytime is fine.) You can copy and paste the text below if you like or use your own words but just make sure you tag in @theglobalgoals or use the #GlobalGoals #TellEveryone #PrayerforEveryone hashtags as appropriate.

Twitter – “I’m passionate to #telleveryone about @TheGlobalGoals Visit http://goo.gl/hFcr4x & now you take a selfie & share”

FaceBook – “I’m passionate to #telleveryone about @TheGlobalGoals. My goal is (insert your goal here) Visit http://goo.gl/hFcr4x for more information & now you take a selfie & share the goal you want to see realised”

If you want to read more about the Global Goals then head over to the website.

If you would like to blog or share details socially about the Global Goals then please do come and join our Facebook Group and you can have access to the briefing document which should allow you to share easily (or I can email it to you if you ask)

I know that not everyone has the same passion that  I have to fight inequality and global poverty; you’ll have your own causes that are close to your heart and that’s OK, we are all different but please can you join in? Do me this little favour? I’ll happily do one back for you in the future if you ask me.

I suspect this might take you 5 minutes at the most and to be frank if we don’t all do the little things that we can then we might not have a world left in 50 years, or certainly not one that we want to live in anyway!

Sincerely thank you, for any help you can give. Mich xx

About Michelle Pannell

Mummy from the Heart is the fourth baby of Michelle, a 46 year old (manic) mother living in East Sussex. Having moved to the countryside and ‘retired’, Michelle can now be found eating too much cake and taking long walks. She lives life on the bright side and looks for the joy in every situation, even the excess pounds those cakes keep adding! Michelle’s blog is a very honest place where she shares tales of imperfect parenting, being a Christian digital activist and anything else that takes her fancy.

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