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  Is it possible to reclaim a sustainable world? My optimistic self says yes though the realistic me believes we are yet far from achieving a sustainable world. But surely, ·        Each one can lead by example. We must try to reach out / influence people ·        People can take any medium, but it should have positive impact on masses ·        Leaders can play a big role by setting examples and leading by examples ·         We must ‘Preach what we practice or Practice what we preach’ What role religious leaders, artists, academicians can play? What role can education play? Religious leaders - act as intercessors to God, representing their people to God and acting as intermediaries to him by offering prayers on the behalf of their people. As they are held in immense respect by their people and are dearly loved they can help to make the world a ...
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Agenda 2030

  The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 by the UN Member States, with the purpose of ending poverty, protecting the planet earth, and guaranteeing peace and prosperity for all people by the year 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. The world leaders have a shared vision to set the world on a sustainable path to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations. The COVID-19 pandemic is, however, disrupting the key goal “leave no one behind” by its constantly growing dangers through inequalities around income, wealth, access to quality education, water, and sanitation, health and other social services. The global community finds itself in an unprecedented situation where parallel threats of health, economic and social crisis have left countries struggling to contain the epidemi...

COVID‐19 and Children

Did you notice that the letter ‘C’ has shot to prominence and brought a sea of change in the lives of children through this Covid -19? Millions of children have been adversely affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. They have become vulnerable and sensitive to the changes around them which they had never seen or experienced. Words like coronavirus, cases, confirmed, confinement, containment, curfew, chloroquine, cemetery, crematorium have suddenly been most heard and used changing their world completely. The closing down of schools has impacted them by confining them within the four walls of their houses and exposing them to the uncertainties, traumas of seeing the loved ones in the grip of the fatal disease and perhaps also losing at them at times. Fears, anxieties, and uncertainties have surrounded them, leaving them to learn some very heavy lessons.   The innocent souls who were opening their wings to take flight have been severed by this pandemic. Isolation, physical distance, a...