European Year for Development arrived in the high
school Gymnazium Golianova Nitra on September 22, 2015.
25 students from classes 3 A and 28 from 3 B gathered to
listen to presentations by Tatiana Kobidova from the Europe Direct Nitra and
Dagmar Mekinova from the Slovak Platform of NGDOs.
Tatiana Kobidova introduced EU as
the biggest world's aid donor and screened a short video covering the project
of the association Človek v ohrození (People in Peril) thanks to which a school
was built in Afghanistan.
Dagmar
Mekinova talked about members of the Platform and their work in the field of
development cooperation, humanitarian aid and global education, achievements of
Millennium Development Goals, presented 17 Sustainable Developing Goals and
presented year 2015 as the year of three summits important for development: in July,
Addis Ababa - Financing for Development; in September, New York: Sustainable
Development Summit and in December, Paris: World Climate Summit.
She also explained what ODA means
and that promises of rich countries to give 0,7 (0,15) % of their GNI as official international development
aid annually are met only by four European countries. On the base of the case
study from Zambia by Action Aid explained how multinational companies avoid
paying taxes and deprive less developed countries of important financial
source.
She also
introduced the Platform campaign for a fairer world ZI FER (LIVE FAIR) and ways
how everybody can join it as a responsible inhabitant and consumer.
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