The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a call for action
for all countries to promote prosperity while protecting the
planet.
In order to make a difference, these goals aim to bring about
change in peoples’ everyday lives. To support such efforts, the
UN has launched ‘Take a Step’ campaign: a call to action that
highlights the big impact small acts of kindness can have in the
world around us.
It’s time to take a step for the Lebanon we want.
Why does it matter?
Click on one of the six Goals below to know more about why taking a step matters.
Poverty influences all aspects
of people’s lives, from health
and nutrition to shelter and
education. It can negatively
impact the overall economy
and society dynamics. Poverty
fails humanity, take a step.
Education helps reduce poverty,
foster economic growth and
even combat climate change.
Quality education helps
children and youth reach their
full potential, become active
citizens in society and shape
the future of Lebanon, take a
step.
Women and girls play an
important political, economic
and social role in our society.
Women and men are responsible
to fight for equal rights,
end abuse and eliminate
discrimination towards a more
developed Lebanon, take a
step.
Our lives revolve around
energy: in the lights we turn
on, the air conditioning we use
and even the car we drive.
Affordable and clean energy
benefits education, health,
running our businesses and
creating new jobs, take a step.
Oceans regulate our life, from
the oxygen we breathe to the
mild Mediterranean weather
Lebanon is known for. If we do
not help conserve our waters
and the life in them, we would
be risking fishermen’s incomes,
destroying our coastlines and
changing the Lebanon we
know today, take a step.
Citizens also have a key role in
ensuring peace, justice and
strong institutions. Informed
and aware citizens can help
lead to a just life, free from
fear, violence and corruption,
take a step.
How to Take a Step
Whether it’s about how to end poverty, or educate a child, or
benefit from affordable energy; in this guide, you will find simple
and straightforward steps that you, your friends and those
around you can take to help Lebanon have a better future.
Each section in the guide has a set of 14 steps that can be easily
implemented in your daily life, and which can make a difference
when performed consistently and persistently.
Read more below on how you can take a step or download the guide here (
English and
Arabic).
$4 a day
Can you go through the day with only $4? Watch this video to see how the United Nations Lebanon raised awareness on poverty in Lebanon through a marketing stunt.
Supporters
Dalia Dagher
Goal 1- No Poverty
Nour AridaGoal 4- Quality Education
Ray BassilGoal 5- Gender Equality
Michael HaddadGoal 7- Affordable and Clean Energy
Silvio ChihaGoal 14- Life Below Water
Anthony RahayelGoal 16- Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions