In response to this call, Teachers Without Borders, which was also founded in the year 2000 with the mission to bridge the global education divide and facilitate the creation of a world without borders through the professional development of educators and establishment of Community Teaching and Learning Centers, is committing its wisdom, network and membership as well as resources to the realization of the MDGs noting well that “it takes a teacher to develop a village”. TWB has developed a network of educators in formal and non-formal/informal institutions in more than 100 nations encompassing the realms of religion, science, academia, the arts, media, sports, youth, agriculture, technology, business enterprises, and more.
In 2007, TWB-Nigeria launched a new stage of the development of its mission and programs to support the United Nations in achieving the Millennium Development Goals as well as Education For All. The Millennium Development Initiative, which includes both the Millennium Development Ambassadors and Millennium Development Educators programs, is an initiative that brings together a global alliance of local educators and institutions dedicated to the building of a world without borders and the realization of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The initiative is designed in such a manner that the global development divide can be overcome, and a new world emerges, in which everyone can live in freedom, harmony, cooperation, and co-prosperity. The Millennium Development Initiative also includes the advocacy for the renewal of every nation and supports the call for a renewed United Nations, whereby educators and non-governmental ambassadors with other leaders play central role in global issues of development, in order to bring about a new world without borders.
We believe that the Voice of Teachers on the MDGs can be a wonderful tool for the realization of this global aspiration. We affirm that Non-Governmental Ambassadors can work with Governmental Ambassadors in every nation of the world to bring about sustainable development in this 21st century, so that the new world of sustainable and integrated spiritual and material development can emerge.
The TWB Millennium Development Initiative is a New Vision for Sustainable Development in the New Millennium and in particular is dedicated to the localization of the global UN aspirations expressed as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Goals of the TWB Millennium Development Initiative:
The goals of the TWB Millennium Development Initiative are to:
- Create awareness in local areas and for the local communities to gain a deeper understanding of the United Nations Millennium Development Agenda as expressed during the UN Millennium Summit as well as other issues related to the global development divide and identify both intransigent points of impasse and the windows of opportunity that exist in the 21st century Nigeria for the realization and sustenance of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals;
- To inspire responses from individuals, the local families, schools and communities to resolve and in accordance with the UN guidelines issue their new Millennium Declaration, as a demonstration of the localization of the global aspirations of the United Nations;
- Formulate and Recommend with very concrete local based programs and activities, which will contribute to solving the global development divide, and in particular, the MDGs in local communities;
- Mobilize and Establish a network of committed, mutually supportive persons from diverse backgrounds and affiliations, who are dedicated and committed to the realization of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in local communities, and empower them to become embodiments of the UN vision for development in the new millennium;
- Create Structures and Institutions in local communities for the Implementation of the Millennium Development Projects that will lead to the realization of the MDGs
Process of Implementing the TWB Millennium Development Initiative
- Appointment of Millennium Development Ambassadors
- Convening Local Millennium Development Summit
- Resolution of Local Millennium Development Declaration
- Formulation of Local Millennium Development Goals
- Creation of Local Structures for the Implementation of the Local MDGs
- Initiating Policies, Programs and Activities for the Realization of the Local MDGs
Millennium Development Initiative Programs and Activities
Projects of the Teachers Without Borders Millennium Development Initiative include a wide variety of subjects and include:
· Millennium Development Ambassadors
o VIP Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Women Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Parliamentarian Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Youth Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Media Millennium Development Ambassadors
o ICT Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Sport Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Student Millennium Development Ambassadors
o Children of Millennium Development Ambassadors
· Millennium Development Educators
o Womb Life Millennium Development Educators
o Family Millennium Development Educators
o Primary School Millennium Development Educators
o Secondary School Millennium Development Educators
o Tertiary School Millennium Development Educators
o Community Millennium Development Educators
· Millennium Development Education
o Integrated Millennium Development Education
o Certificate of Teaching Mastery in Millennium Development Education
o Community Gathering for Teaching and Learning Sessions on MDGs
o Millennium Development Community Teaching and Learning Centers
· Millennium Development Councils/Committees
o Family Millennium Development Councils/Committees
o School Millennium Development Councils/Committees
o Community Millennium Development Councils/Committees
o State Millennium Development Councils/Committees
o Zonal Millennium Development Councils/Committees
o National Millennium Development Councils/Committees
· Service For Development
o Millennium Development Service Corps
o Millennium Development Volunteers
o Youth Service for Community Development
· Millennium Development Media Programs
o The Voice of Teachers
o Millennium Development Hour on Radio/TV
o Speak Out and Stand Up for the MDGs
· Millennium Development Cultural Programs
o Culture of Sustainable Development Seminar Series
o Millennium Development Inter-Cultural Exchange Program
o Millennium Development Festival
o Millennium Development Tour
· Millennium Development Sports
o Millennium Development Soccer Tournament
o Inter-Faith Sports for MDGs
o Millennium Development King/Queen Cup
· Millennium Development Fund
· Millennium Development Embassy/Centers
Millennium Development Goals Project:
- Goal 1 Projects: To Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
- Goal 2 Projects: To Achieve Universal Primary Education
- Goal 3 Projects: To Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
- Goal 4 Projects: To Reduce Child Mortality
- Goal 5 Projects: To Improve Maternal Health
- Goal 6 Projects: To Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
- HIV/AIDS Library at FCT School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Goal 7 Projects: To Ensure Environmental Sustainability
- Goal 8 Projects: To Develop Global Partnership for Development
- Inter-Cultural Marriage for Sustainable Development
- Inter-Family Partnership
Special Millennium Development Projects
- Womb Life Millennium Development Initiative
- Interreligious Millennium Development Initiative
- Niger Delta Millennium Development Initiative
- Middle Belt Millennium Development Initiative
How Millennium Development Ambassadors Are Working Toward the Realization and Sustenance of the MDGs in the Families, Schools and Communities
Implementing MDGs in their Families:
- Millennium Development Ambassadors adapt the UN MDGs to become Family Development Goals
- Educating their family members on the MDGs through a daily family development literacy program of “Gathering for Reading and Learning Sessions”
- Networking with other families to bridge the family development divide and creating a federation of local families for millennium development
- Raising other family friends in order to build their “millennium development family”
- Making a determination to build 3 generations living together and committed to realizing and sustaining the MDGs
Supporting MDGs Activities in Schools
- Convening School Leaders Millennium Summit (Teachers and Students)
- Training Teachers as Mentors and Students as Peer Educators on Millennium Development Education, leading to the award of Certificate of Teaching Mastery (CTM) and Certificate of Learning Mastery (CLM) respectively
- Inspiring members of school community to issue the School Millennium Declaration and formulate School MDGs
- Creating Millennium Development Centers in schools and supporting programs and activities that help in the empowerment of teachers and students to realize the MDGs
- Mobilizing students for the Service for Development program as well as to volunteer as members of the Millennium Development Service Corps (MDSC)
- Formation of Millennium Development Clubs, Observing School Millennium Development Day and organizing Essay Competitions on the Millennium Development Goals, Sports and Reading Competitions, MDG Arts Competition, Millennium Development Festival, etc.
- Teaching MDGs, Millennium Development Pledge and Anthem, etc.
Implementing MDGs in the Communities
- Convening Community Leaders Millennium Summit, which brings together local community leaders to discuss the role of their community in the 21st century, and the outcome is the adaptation of the UN Millennium Declaration as Community Declaration
- Promoting the Community Millennium Declaration through the homes, schools, media and other institutions of information dissemination and education to create awareness and mobilize support for the Community Millennium Declaration
- Formulating Community Millennium Development Goals from the UN MDGs through convening seminars, conferences of community leaders on Building a Culture of Sustainable Development
- Initiating Policies and Programs for Implementing the Community MDGs
- Establishment of Millennium Development Centers
- Formation of Millennium Development Committees/Councils/Commissions
- Millennium Development Team Building
- Community Gathering for Teaching and Learning Sessions on MDGs
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