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The MDGs between IQ and EQ
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In order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 we undoubtedly need to use intelligence. But is the intelligence quotient the only ingredient we need? Certainly not; the emotional quotient is the other ingredient that together with the IQ will help us all make world a better place to live. We fail to realize that, in order to make a step forward, we need emotions, as we are enslaved to our feelings. Therefore, apart from using our intellects in designing programs and projects we, first of all, need to be highly motivated and determined to do it and to motivate the other people to use their EQs.

The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. When we discuss about the specialists that worked for this project, it is of paramount importance to mention the fact they besides using their intelligences, they got emotionally involved in it and that is why we now have something to discuss on when dealing with the MDGs.

The exemplary work of people such as Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor of the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, between 2002 and 2006 and Director of the UN Millennium Project, is now continued by many non-governmental organizations and their volunteers who use both their brains and souls in order to implement their campaigns. There are countless examples of successful campaigns. Almost every country has had a project that has brought positive results in that country’s society and it was mainly due to the involvement of volunteers who used the two invaluable ingredients, IQ and EQ.

By definition, volunteerism is a learning experience encouraging social integration and offering opportunities to share solidarity with other people. Now, volunteerism is something more. It is an alternative to fuel progress in our society; it is an alternative to accomplishing our goals by 2015. And we have to use the idealism and devotion of volunteers, especially youth volunteers, in order to help the United Nations and ourselves meet this deadline. However, we are confronted with the lack of information from and about the UN. That is why our first projects should be focused on informing millions of young people all over the world, young people who CAN react.

All in all, each and every one of us, starting from the initiators of the United Nations more than fifty years ago and to volunteers from NGOs all over the globe, have used both the intelligence and emotional quotients. Yet, it is up to us to involve more and more people, especially youth because some of them will be adults in 2015, so as to achieve our ONLY goal: a better world for each and every one of us, a world pioneered by US.

May 30, 2008 | 2:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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