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Nancy Kisangau is a fourth year student at Kenyatta University pursuing a Bachelor degree in Law. Prior to this, she worked in the Kenya National Human Rights Commission as an attaché in the Reforms and accountability department. She has also worked in the government sector as an intern in the National Housing Corporation, a state parastatal committed to effectuating housing rights for Kenyan citizens.
Nancy Kisangau
Nairobi
Kenya
After graduating with a BA in Economics and English, Amanda worked for the Chilean Ministry of Education as an English teacher in Chile. While there, she volunteered for an urban development NGO that was carrying out 24 community projects and helped draft Frutillar, Chile’s successful application to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. During her career, she has worked with international youth on educational programs sponsored by the British Council and the U.S. Department of State. She is a former White House intern and an incoming Fulbright Scholar.
Name, Title
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
United States
Felix is currently a National Youth Service Corp member serving his country, Nigeria at Ministry of Works, Uyo, Akwa Ibom. He graduated from Swansea University, with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2014 and went on to complete a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2017. Felix developed a strong devotion to Youth Empowerment and giving back to his Community during his time at Swansea University from various leadership roles e.g. Sports Officer and Trustee of Swansea University Students’ Union, Treasurer of 2 societies etc. These experiences gave him an appreciation of how initiatives can significantly impact people’s lives.
Felix Mmeka
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Harun Momanyi is a youth empowerment expert, a socioeconomic development journalist and an entrepreneur. He is passionate about the SDGs. Originally from Kenya, Harun currently works as the Head of Kenya with Reform Africa Group, a Pan-African organization focusing on creating solutions to help youth realize meaningful employment and tackle life challenges better. In 2014, he was finalist in the Haller Prize for Development Journalism, became and ambassador for the NUHA Foundation Global Blogging Prize in 2015, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 nominee in 2018 and was shortlisted for the BBC World News Service Komla Dumor Award in 2018.
Harun Momanyi
Nairobi
Kenya
Victor is an Engineer and a problem solver. He is passionate about education and poverty eradication. Victor currently works as Cofounder and facilitator of Tech the girl Child Africa (TGC) an outreach program that seeks to engage over 10,000 girl child, especially in Africa with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).
Victor is also serving as Director of sales and marketing at Mingcart, a company he cofounded in 2016 to unify Africa through culture and traditions.
Victor has received a number of prestigious National Merit Scholarship awards for his dedication to education. He hopes see everyone educated someday.
Victor Musa
Abuja
Nigeria
Ezinne is a youth passionate about issues pertaining to inclusive growth, sustainable development, climate change and the enormous transformations taking place in especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. She seeks to earn a doctorate degree in Development Economics and her career goal is to be a development economist in an international development organization.
Ezinne Uche
Lagos
Nigeria
Teachers
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
Why should teachers teach the SDGs?
Because the world needs tomorrow’s leaders and citizens to be educated about the challenges it faces.
Teachers are shaping the minds of the future decision-makers, voters, consumers and citizens.
As such, they have the power and unique responsibility to provide the knowledge and necessary skills for the next generation to tackle the big challenges of their time.
Because the SDGs are a great tool to introduce students to local and global issues.
Students rely on teachers to design their learning experience and it is teachers’ responsibility help them develop their own insights into the main world issues. Using the SDG framework enables teachers to bring these issues in the classroom and start important conversations about gender equality, access to basic care, education, protection of the planet…
Integrated into lesson plans and used as a framework for collaborative projects, the SDGs give students opportunities reflect on issues bigger than themselves and on the role they want to take as they are preparing to become global citizens.
Because teachers are uniquely placed to inspire students to make a difference in their community.
Teachers are at the centre of communities and, equipped with their intrinsic understanding of educational practices, they can bring transformational changes in students’ ways of thinking and inspire them to start acting and make a difference in their own community.
Teachers are also in a unique position to inspire students to lead sustainable lifestyles and choose career paths that will enable them to solve some of these global challenges.
Because the world needs the youth to be on-board to achieve the SDGs.
Young people are idealistic.
Young people are creative.
Young people are in big numbers.
And as such, they have an incredible potential to be the driver of the change the world’s needs to achieve every single sustainable development goals.
Because teaching the SDGs means joining a worldwide unstoppable movement and a vibrant community.
All around the world teachers are leading the sustainable development effort by integrating the SDGs into classrooms and creating lesson plans, activities and projects aligned with the SDGs, becoming change-makers on the ground and inspiring governments to take actions. Teaching the SDGs isn’t just about implementing change in one class, school or community, it is about entering a vibrant community of educators that exchange ideas and best practices across borders, using the SDGs as a common framework to set the new standards in education