Monrovia – Several students from various schools on the Bushrod Island at the launch on the awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Africa Agenda 2063 over the weekend cautioned the Government of Liberia to live up to their promises in order to have a better future.
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At the beginning of the awareness, students from various schools on the Bushrod Island marched from Freeport of Monrovia to the Boatswain School on the Jamaica Road.
The SDGs awareness is to get across the spectrum of the society but the awareness in Montserrado was focused on people in the academic circles.
Student Grace Toe said bringing students from several schools is good because it will inform them about the plans government has for them.
She added that with the right implementation of the SDGs, Liberia can have a suitable learning environment in the future.
“We want to urge our government to pay attention on the teachers and provide good text books for students,” student Toe said.
Another student of the D. Tweh School in the Borough of New Kru Town, Elem Revees said: “I recommend to the national government that they adhere to the SDGs and the Agenda 2063 because after going through it; I understood that it really means well for our county.”
He added: “This goal will ensure that Liberia will be able to ensure access to quality education and other things.”
In September 2015, countries around the world including Liberia adopted the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals. A set of 17 pillows goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.
In January 2015, members of the African Union (AU) adopted Agenda 2030, which happened to be the call for action to all segments of African society to work together to build a prosperous and United Africa based on shared values and a common destiny.
For his part, Saliho A. Donzo, Assistant Director for Research at the Department of Budget of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning said their nationwide awareness is to leave no one behind in the developmental plan.
“We are now doing a nationwide campaign. We done to 13 of our 15 political sub-divisions explaining to them what the SDGs and the Africa Agenda 2063 are and our own development plan which is the Agenda for Transformation and also our own national vision which is the vision 2030,” Donzo said.
“What we are doing is call multi-stakeholders engagement. “
“Last month we dealt with the religious leaders and after we went to the civil society organizations and we also met with the political parties as well explaining to them what we are doing”.
“And then we though it wise to come to the academia and the youths as the story often goes the young people are the future leader of this county. “
“We are talking with students; to teachers to get their views so that when we are developing the successor flame work to the AFT we will be doing it from an inform perspective,” he said.