The United Nations aims to unite countries to achieve peace, sustainable development, fight against climate change, a safer, equal and fair world ... "The biggest lesson in the world" is an animation produced in collaboration between UNICEF and Project Everyone to explain the Global Sustainable Development Goals to children around the world.
The Global Sustainable Development Goals are 17 goals to be achieved by 2030, although "extensions" are accepted for these types of challenges, as with the Millennium Goals. And, it seems impossible that we achieve them in that period. And if we can't do it, our children will have to follow it.
I like this video aimed at children because it appeals to their creativity, to their imagination, to their capacity, to their help, involving them and trusting them for future changes and encouraging them to spread the objectives of sustainable development and for the whole society to be more aware of their importance.
And as there are many objectives, there are many ways to contribute to achieving them: getting new ways to obtain drinking water, which does not matter if you are a girl or a boy for your safety, your work or the places you frequent, recycling all the garbage ...
The point is that, however far we are, no matter how different our cultures may be, we all share the same planet and you have to take care of it. Doesn't it seem like the biggest lesson in the world?
In the animated video it is explained in a close way, directed to the little ones, some of the fundamental problems of the Earth:
Climate change, which is undermining the resources we need to live. You have to protect the planet.
Inequality Some people have more than they need and most do not have what it takes. You have to be more fair and equitable.
There are children who cannot access school or medications ...
It's fair? We are responsible for these problems, so we can also give you a solution. Because we are creative beings and together we can achieve the objectives of sustainable development.
We have to know this as adults, but also our children have to know, to be future responsible adults to "get us" out of the quagmire or keep trying since we won't know how to do it before. If all children know these goals, they may be the generation that changes the world. A great lesson, without which the rest would be meaningless, at least if we look a little beyond our here and now.
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