2. UN Millennial development goal (Child Mortality)
• In the modern world, child mortality is increasing everyday and it is a big deal which the United Nations is trying
to reduce.
• Children are important in the community and the world at large. They symbolize hope for a brighter future.
• The loss of an infant, or adolescent aged child is devastating bearing in mind that they have lost a chance to
make the world a better place for the children to come.
• This pains me because, some of the factors that lead to these increased deaths are matters that we can be able
to solve as a community.
• The UN’s project of reducing child mortality has made significant progress over the last couple of years from
1990 to date. With reduced cases from 12.7 million to recent cases of 2020 revealing 7.2 million children have
died.
• Despite the noticeable slight progress of reducing the child mortality rate, the project still has not achieved
maximum positive impact.
3. Child Mortality
Some of the main challenges hindering the U.N’s success in reducing the child deaths include
Continuous rebelling conflicts in countries like in Middle East and the African continent.
Conflicts between world Super Powers which affects the community of practice from the U.N. donors and
supporters.
4. Child Mortality
In order to foster a sustainable global progress, accelerating the process of reducing child deaths is a significant
start.
Engaging my community to raise awareness of the impact and causes of child mortality in the world will benefit
to accelerate the decline of this rates. Calling for local government’s intervention in the matter and enhancing
community of practice to help spread the word and establish solutions to this problem.
My greatest contribution will be to advocate for a community of practice among corporations, churches, local
and national government, individuals, communities, , schools etc.
A social media platform such as Facebook can be used to create a social community that can help to
communicate the problem of child mortality and also to call for donations around the world in order to form
strong grounds in the process of improving the situation.
5. References
Unicef for children. (2021, December 20). Latest child mortality estimates reveal world remains off track to
meeting sustainable development goals. URL: Latest child mortality estimates reveal world remains off track
to meeting Sustainable Development Goals (unicef.org)
