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Committee: Impact 1
Topic: Equipment of Education Facilities
Name: Peter Drew
Nationality: United States of America
Date: 10th of February
Equipment of Education Facilities is a topic addressed by the United Nations as part of the 4th Sustainable Development Goal, Quality Education. In many less economically developed countries, schools lack the necessary equipment to facilitate good quality education. The issue is more complex than it seems and it has to be addressed with a caution, as many policies which are supposed to improve the situation, cannot be implemented in many countries due to lack of opportunity. As a result it is important to find a global solution which will establish a save space at schools with equipment that schools can use to deepen the school curriculum.
Firstly it is important to mention that through Improving the equipment of education facilities we can build human security through resilience of youth. Human Security is needed nowadays to avoid the growing issues of poverty, ethnic violence, international terrorism, health pandemics, and sudden economic and financial downturns. To achieve human Sustainable Uses for Nuclear Energy security in each country, the development of a resilient youth is needed. The estimated homicide count of world increase in past 10 years by 6.1%. It happens because of the lack of education, thus affecting the aggression percentage in several developing countries. The Literate rate of the World Population is about 86% in 2016, increased by 4% every 5 years. The growth rate for the world GDP was about 3.6% in 2018. As observed in Canada, the better literacy shows better annual earnings in a country. We could see that the global youth unemployment rate is expected to reach 13.1% in 2016 (71 million young people) which are three times more likely to be unemployed that adults. The reason for this is that many young people do not get the education from their school that they require.
In order to tackle this topic we have to find a solution that extends the common phrase “ensure more funding from the government”. Even though funding is an important part of our desired solution, it’s not everything. My proposal is simple however at the same time requires the change in thinking of people. We need to establish a clear model of education in less economically developed countries, which will be monitored by the UNDP and local government and which will require the same equipment at all schools. At the moment in many countries private schools have much more developed facilities than local schools. By creating one model, this would dismiss the gap and would offer to students the opportunity to develop their talents and abilities. As it would be monitored by UNDP, it would be possible to interconnect with local schools volunteers and investors which would help to cover the necessary costs.
Moreover it’s essential to create a more functioning network of volunteers which would get in touch with certain schools in certain areas and help them achieve all their goals. Despite the fact that it already exists in many countries, we can establish an official adoption of schools program. The person who would adopt a local school in less economically developed country would have the obligation to support the students at that school and help them find sufficient sponsorship and investments. In order to be to dismiss the possibility of misusage of the money from the person who adopts certain school, the program would be monitored by the United Nations.
For the first time in history, the world has reached the record as the home for the largest generation of young people, for total 1.8 billion and close to 90% of them live in developing countries. This is the reason why we need to update the school system and ensure that all schools have the necessary equipment they need. I encourage all delegates to speak up and propose ideas which might change the lives of millions of people.
