GEP – Local Service Aims: educating people about periods making kits for girls in foreign countries (re usable pads) getting girls educated about their rights helping girls to not be held back in life by their periods these goals all fall under esteem and social inclusion, as periods are a natural thing, but have such stigma around discussing them. In third world countries, this often results in girls feeling embarrassed…

      Sachs says that people who live in extreme poverty are not “able to meet basic needs”. What does he mean by “basic needs”? access to emergency healthcare, clean power in the form of electricity or natural gas for cooking, safe drinking water, sanitation, and shelter.     What formula does Sachs use to define poverty? lack of income and lack of access to basic health services, basic amenities that most of…

Politicians, governments, and often even our own parents, don’t truly understand the extent to which climate change is effecting our planet. Some people believe that the earth will be able to sort itself out, or that that we as individuals can change the course of nature. This belief is called ecocentrism. Others hold faith in the advancement of technology to save us, a belief that is called technocentrism. Then of…

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