Generally it is a moment of ecstasy having reached the
graduation day for often school is an arena for struggle in my home area since
many students do not come from well off families. You start many at the beginning
but graduate a few at the end. This is a clear sign that perhaps, a few
individuals get the chance to attain formal education.
‘Over three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, 22,000
children die each day due to poverty and they die quietly in some of the poorest
villages on earth. About 72 million children of primary school age in the
developing world were not in school in 2005 and 57% of them were girls. Some
1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water and
2.6 billion lack basic sanitation and millions of women spending several hours
a day collecting water. For the 1.9 billion children from the developing world,
there are: 640 million without adequate shelter and 270 million with no access
to health services. Worldwide, 2.2 million children die each year because they
are not immunized and 15 million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS. The GDP
(Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million
people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.’ Anup Shah.
For the past two years, I lived by a phenomenon of ‘reverse
engineering’ which involves employment of retrospective approaches in work,
actions and thoughts, but also emulation of ways and conducts for people,
companies and organizations one would like to be and build, hence making one a
clone. ‘We ought to be the change we seek’ was the song for each day that
passed by.
Education is an expensive entity, if you can get it for
free, then count yourself among the luckiest people on planet earth. It is a
fundamental tool in neutralizing global challenges, but the type, style,
learner and its access plays a big influence in the context. The ongoing
campaign of Mass Open Online Courses ‘MOOC’ is one of the best strategic
initiative to rectifying global challenges. It ensures that those who cannot
afford education, at least can access free knowledge. This shows
diversification and a new education pattern hence ‘trend as a trade’.
It’s paramount for one to have a trend to trade in as a
means to investment or livelihood. Trading is not necessarily having money as a
means for transaction but rather a trend of patterns to break through.
Intangibles such as good reputation, honesty, passion, insightfulness, verbal
intelligence, critical, logical and creative thinking make a trend. ‘Our
mission is to give a world class education to everyone, everywhere, regardless
of gender, income or social status’ edx .This implies trend as a pattern and a
trade to achieve the millennium development goals.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The worldly
challenges shall best be solved through global partnership for development.
This move is highly evidenced with the following organizations and initiatives:
Young African Leaders Initiative Network by the US government, Consortium of
Universities for Global health in Boston, free e-learning by Food and
Agriculture organization and Youthful Cities in Canada.
Strategy needs a great deal of time and an efficient
multidisciplinary team approach. Tactically, learners should be highly taught
to use one discipline to solve challenges in another. This should mark the
modern day education foundation. Further,
feasible, efficient and a tested innovative strategy should come before any
intentional or purposeful trend. The variability in tackling similar problems
shows a trade in a trend. This is so due to patterns.
You can’t solve a problem you are not aware of. Institutions
mainly in developing countries should aggressively embrace and focus on
research as a pillar to reaching means of resolving both local and global
challenges. A big applaud goes to the United Nations Institute for Training and
Research (UNITAR) for its campaign on research. The different exposure among
countries should be taken advantage of as measure to coming up with creative
means for solving global challenges.
Reverse engineering should be the order for day in
developing countries. It has an entity of emulation which is highly fueled by
motivation for emotions are energies in motion. This implies that organizations
and governments should focus on the youth empowerment for development as a
strategy for the day to day and future investment.
More than 50% of women are in the middle management level.
How best should women be transcended to higher executive levels? Perhaps having more of them in those
positions would escalate easier achievement of millennium development goals. This
could be so, for there would be an increment in numbers of personnel focusing
on and tackling similar challenges hence a synergistic approach and trend.
There are lots of talents that go unnoticed and unutilized
in developing countries. Mobilizing and transforming them into purposeful and
solution oriented entities would perhaps contribute to an escalated global
partnership for development. The question is, how best can we locate and
transform those talents in the communities?
Think like an economist, reason like a philosopher but act
like a medic. Any type of decision is an investment. Bad ones make bad or poor
investments. Giving financial aid to developing countries may not profoundly
aid in efficient rectification of global challenges. Teaching people how to
solve challenges is sustainable and a better option for skills can be
transferable from one generation to another hence a platform for future
development and self-sustainability. You are barely interdependent unless you
get independent. It’s therefore
imperative for nations to embrace and initiate integrated agendas which
emphasize or highly prioritize research, creativity and equitable access to
resources as a trend of neutralizing global challenges.
