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The United Nations and Youth
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In today’s world, many people perceive progress as being a direct result of the IQ (intelligence quotient). Yet, they fail to realize that, in order to make a step forward, we need emotions, as we are enslaved to our feelings. We might all think that the success of the United Nations is due only to IQ and, in our quest for promoting this idea, we often tend to overlook the merits of the EQ (emotional quotient). Therefore, in order to ensure the advancement of our society, we must instill in our youth the sense of emotional expression, creative thinking, empathy and communication.
UNESCO, the UN agency that supports collaboration through education, culture and science, is currently trying to offer quality education for all by 2015. Yet, there are 72 million children worldwide that are denied right to education and more than 774 million adults that cannot read or write mainly because of the fees and costs schooling involve. So, how can we solve these problems? A solution might be volunteerism. Through volunteerism people not only help their countries and learn to become respected citizens, but also gain invaluable knowledge. They are taught what commitment means, to express their feelings freely, to use creativity and to communicate to one another. This useful tool has, so far, given plenty positive results, so why should we stop using it and focus on convincing countries to lower school fees, thus harming their already affected economies?
At the 11th THIMUN Youth Assembly I attended this January as a member of the Committee on Youth Participation and Volunteerism, I learned that we ought to use the inestimable idealism and devotion youths possess. With their motivation and with help and information from the United Nations, they can voluntarily work on projects that can make a difference in their communities. Therefore, they would significantly improve their EIs.
Furthermore, through volunteerism and youth participation we can manage to accomplish, by 2015, the set of goals adopted in 2000 by the UN member states, the Millennium Development Goals. We have all seen great campaigns and projects and, with less than seven years until the deadline, we have to work tirelessly and involve more and more young people worldwide to act in this respect as we will be the ones who, in 2015, will be the adults that will inhabit the Earth. We should be given the chance to take action now because it is our supreme duty to make a change for the better.
To conclude with, what UN needs to do now is to help youths from all around the world get involved in making world a better place for each and every one of us. This can only happen if young people volunteer in viable projects. We do not need to educate a generation of people with IQs of scientists and EQs of eggplants, but a generation of highly responsible and devoted citizens.

May 30, 2008 | 2:00 AM Comments  0 comments

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