The UN Global Goal: No Poverty

"Eradicating poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice and the key to unlocking an enormous human potential."

Source: https://www.one.org/us/globalgoals/no-poverty/

End Poverty in all its forms everywhere. The Goal of No Poverty has 7 targets:

• Eradicate extreme poverty
• Reduce poverty by at least 50%
• Implement social protection systems
• Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
• Build resilience to environmental, economic and social disasters
• Mobilize resources to implement policies to end poverty
• Create pro-poor and gender sensitive policy frameworks

Source: UNDP

Teaching Ideas:​

• Read No Poverty: Why it Matters with your class
• Have students select one of these case studies of how SDG's Funds are working to achieve No Poverty
• If you want your students to think critically about foreign aid and why donating is charities is not addressing the root of the problem, a great documentary is Poverty Inc.
• One of the best teaching tools for your students to explore factors of poverty is the Canadian Geographic interactive Developing World map. One way I have used this in the classroom is having students compare the HDI of their country (for example, Canada) to a developing country.
• Check out this lesson from the World's Largest Lesson: Global Poverty Requires Local Solutions
• Check out this lesson from the World's Largest Lesson: The World is Not Equal. Is that Fair?
• If you would like to teach your students about how kids can contribute to their communities, check out Empatico's lesson on Helping Hands

Resources:​

• How one goat is helping lift a whole community out of poverty
• After a cyclone, a strong home and future
• Transforming challenges into opportunities
• Canadian Geographic's interactive Developing World Map. You can also order one for your class here if you are a member of Canadian Geographic Education.
• No Poverty comic
• It's Your World by Chelsea Clinton is a great book to read with your students, but even if you don't purchase the book, you can check out resources from Chapter 1: $1.25 a Day: Poverty Around the World

A Developing World

Compare countries' statistics, learn about the Human Development Index and explore our changing world.

Goal 1: No Poverty - SDG Tracker

The UN explains: Extreme poverty rates have fallen by more than half since 1990. While this is a remarkable achievement, one-in-five people in developing regions still live on less than $1.90 a day. Millions more make little more than this daily amount and are at risk of slipping back into extreme poverty.

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The Challenges

Here are the challenges for this month! ​​

Download a poster with January's challenges below

Tweet your students in action completing the challenges @changemakeclass