For the past semester, I have been in an elective called global goals. In this elective, you get to choose one of seventeen global goals and work on a project to help the world get closer to accomplishing it. The global goals are made by the United Nations which aims to change the world and make it a better place. The United Nations are an intergovernmental organization that was founded in 1945 and aims to bring more peace and security to the world. All
In the first term for the first few weeks, we gained an idea of what the Global Goals are. We found out that there are 17 goals created by an organization called the United Nations(UN) whose sole aim is to make the world a better place. I partnered up with Charlie and we began deciding which Global Goal we would like to help, it did not have to be on a large scale but within a community, we chose our school community of All Saints’ College, now we had to decide on an exact goal to help. Of those 17 goals we decided on something that could help the school’s environment and from that, we decided on UN Global Goal number 11.
Goal number 11 is sustainable cities and communities, our community was All Saints’ college, initially, we thought of fundraising and putting it towards the school’s aquaponics area, then to a sustainable garden on the school oval and then finally hosting a tree planting day in partnership with the school’s grounds keeping and maintenance staff. Planting trees on the eastern side of the oval, where it is empty space unutilized planting native trees and plants would help save water which brings us to our goal of sustainable cities and communities.
Our partnership with Mr Gale and Mr Guy has allowed us to put this tree planting day into action, with there help we have As well as our partnership with the grounds and maintenance staff, we have organized what will happen on the day, how many plants and a choice of plants all native. We also have our partnership with the college’s advertising committee alongside them we have managed to advertise our day across many platforms including the college courier, the school’s social media pages as well as on the college screens.
Our tree planting day will occur on the 31st of July 2022, this date is specially chosen because on the 30th of July it is world plant a tree day and the 1st of August is school tree planting day so by having our planting day on the 31st it gives reason and motivation to plant.
Overall I believe that this semester was very fun and I believe that my partner and I were very helpful on the tree planting day. We helped organize the event but also advertised it and went to an expo where we gave out information. I think it was a great project to work on and it was very fun all semester long. I would definitely recommend this project for other students to take part in.