THE GLOBAL GOALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Work begins now! No I don’t think so. Work must continue. This is a timely opportunity for YouthCaffe, coming at a time when there is increased clamor for more girls to be educated in technology courses like coding. As more and more girls get competent skills, more and more of them start competing favorable for limited job opportunities. 

Lifted from Wikipedia pages, “ On 25 September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Development Agenda titled Transforming our world'.'
This included the following goals:

1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life long learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development  ” 

We as YouthCaffe remain ready to contribute to goals 4, 5, 8 and 16. Vocational education offered by youthcaffe is quite hands- on allowing youth to successfully transit from class to job environment effortlessly.As it is,we are positioned to have more girls behind machines coding: Incubation of girls’ only web and app developers.In the long run this will build girl child capacity for sustainable livelihood. 

Finally, Peace and community cohesion is key if we want to halt violent extremism and radicalization of youth. This begins at that moment when we analyze the root causes,supporting factors and problem manifestation.