MBTF: Dagupan fully supports UN’s 17 SDG
2024 DAGUPAN CHILDREN’S SUMMIT
THE 2024 Children’s Summit in Dagupan City held last week at CSI Stadia engaged students, parents and teachers on the importance of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in their development which the city of Dagupan is committed to pursue until 2030.
Attended by some 20,000 elementary to senior high school students from public and private schools in Dagupan, the summit was guided by the theme “Celebrating Children’s Ideas and Actions for United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.”,
In explaining the objective of the Children’s Summit, Mayor Fernandez said “Sustainable Development Agenda aims to introduce significant changes to the world, conquer poverty and achieve and maintain the progress and development of the world by 2030 and ensure that no one will be left behind.”
She said her administration is committed to prioritize development of the farthest communities where the poorest of the poor live because the SDG was designed to end poverty, hunger, auto-immuno deficiency syndrome or AIDS, discrimination against women among others.
Fernandez has begun her mission in delivering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal by training and providing livelihood to the city’s poor, by continuous feeding program to help achieve “zero hunger”, by implementing “unli-health serbisyo” home visits to the sick, free diagnostic services and medicines to the poor and senior citizens, providing scholarships to deserving students of poor families, and by building better schools for them, and many others.
She proudly assured that Dagupan will be in the forefront among all local government units in the .country as she cited the need for the critical cooperation of all stakeholders and sectors to speed up the development required among all nations by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal.
“Sa Dagupan, ang ating sekreto sa pag-unlad ay ang pagsisimula. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Hindi natin magagawa ang lahat ng kailangan nating gawin nang hindi nagtutulungan,” Fernandez intoned.
Graced by Department of Health Regional Director Paula Paz Sydiongco as guest of honor and speaker, the three-day summit conducted symposium about children and UN SDG, and competitions such as Quiz Bee, Spelling Bee and Trivia; Essay Writing, Poster-making, Graphic Design, Vegetable Salad-making,Tuna Sandwich-making, exhibits. (Leonardo Micua)
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