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  1. Oct 2020
    1. That’s what you’re seeing today, where nearly 400 girls have not gone through FGM in my village, in a region where nearly 80 percent of women have been cut. Believe me, these girls, they are sharing their experiences with their sisters, their cousins and their friends.

      If Kekenya Ntaiya can successfully;y help aid nearly four hundred girls by giving them food, shelter, and even an education imagine how many hundreds of thousands more kids we as a world can give an opportunity., Everyone deserves a chance.

    2. She arrived tired and hungry, but determined.

      The kids that grow up in poor country's are willing to do dang near anything to get an education and provide abetter life for themselves and they family. No child should have to walk five freaking miles to get education.

    3. I grew up in rural Kenya in a small village called Enoosaen.

      Millions upon millions of people around the world are not nearly as fortunate as us here in the united states which is just not ok. People all around the world should have access to education. Education for those in country's that cant afford much are places we as a nation should reach out and aid.

    1. As a country gets richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into its shops

      The more and more rich our country, United States, gets the more and more food surplus will be wanted and needed. In which the amount of waste will only increase and they amount of food available will become more and more scarce overtime!

    2. Any dot above that line, and you’ll quickly notice that that includes most countries in the world, represents unnecessary surplus, and is likely to reflect levels of waste in each country.

      This just further expresses my first annotation point that it isn't just the United States, its every single country full of million and millions of people throwing away perfectly good foos that can be used for good.

    3. But I noticed that most of the food that I was giving my pigs was in fact fit for human consumption

      The moment I heard this line I was quite honestly filled with anger and frustration because people waste multiple days worth of food a day. The food we waste could be used is so many ways such as feeding the cattle that we hope to get big to eventually feed more people, but more importantly the homeless. This food that we all selfishly waste could be ones meal who can't afford any...

  2. Sep 2020
    1. Can we achieve the Global Goals? Certainly not with business as usual. Even a flood tide of economic growth is not going to get us there, if it just raises the mega-yachts and the super-wealthy and leaves the rest behind.

      I agree with at least this statement because the rich and wealthy don't worry or care about these real world problems and leave the less fortunate/poor to struggle to survive. We need to find a way to get them to care because otherwise they won't get behind the change we al need and want.

    2. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment. Because back in 2001, the UN agreed another set of goals, the Millennium Development Goals. And the flagship target there was to halve the proportion of people living in poverty by 2015. The target was to take from a baseline of 1990, when 36 percent of the world’s population lived in poverty, to get to 18 percent poverty this year.

      Yes, the UN was able to make a stride on solving one of these grave issues, poverty, yet that was in 2001! Nineteen years ago! We all understand that it takes a little of time to attempt to make a change, but almost two decades makes it seem not so productive. They even say that they didn't hit the target which is not a good sign if we as a world are going to try to make a t=change for the better.

    3. Do you think the world is going to be a better place next year? In the next decade? Can we end hunger, achieve gender equality, halt climate change, all in the next 15 years?

      I personally believe the wild will be a better place in the future though not any time soon. In todays present situation we as a society are still struggling with a number of issues. We are still facing pollution that is killing our aquatic life, social and racial issues, and even a pandemic! The governments world may say we can, but they need to take the right actions to insure so. Hopefully in the upcoming years we can dissolve a number of these problems thus making thew world a better place for future generations.

  3. Aug 2020
    1. We will strive to see our interdependence and interconnectedness, and labor for one another.

      We must strive to seek independence from other during this semester and deliver labor that only we distribute. Respect one another's labor even if you don't agree.

    2. to honor the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity, and respect.

      I agree, everyone should strive to treat everybody, without exception, absolute justice, equity, and respect. Everyone deserves a certain amount of respect it just determined on if you show it or not.

    3. The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical, and spiritual traditions

      I partially believe in this statement in which the main principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious traditions. Compassion also lies at the base of your personality, in which you can be compassionate based of your morals.