ABOUT RESULTS:
RESULTS is a Non-Profit organization which works to empower ordinary people to become powerful voices for the end of poverty. RESULTS has grassroots chapters in over 100 locations in the U.S., which form one of the most engaged and effective grassroots networks in the world.
ATLANTA CHAPTER of RESULTS:
The Atlanta Chapter of RESULTS advocates for policies and legislation that create or safeguard effective solutions to poverty, make programs run more efficiently and effectively, and extend coverage to those who need it. Generally, our Atlanta Chapter is NOT focused on fundraising but rather on spreading awareness of our issues and on ways to get political support for such issues.
RESULTS GOALS:
In 2000, world leaders committed to a set of goals that would dramatically reduce extreme poverty by 2015. Called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they set targets for reducing hunger, disease, and poverty while promoting gender equality, health, education, and environmental sustainability. The MDGs provide a positive framework for creating a healthier, more prosperous world.
RESULTS’ global poverty campaigns are integral to fulfilling the MDGs:
Foreign Aid Reform: Improving the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance.
Economic Justice: Expanding access to microfinance for the very poor and changing the policies of international financial institutions that hinder development.
Health: Combating diseases of poverty and promoting child survival.
Education for All: Ensuring all children have access to basic education.
President Obama has pledged that the Millennium Development Goals will be America’s goals. RESULTS is committed to ensuring that his promise becomes a reality.
ATLANTA CHAPTER FOCUS:
The Atlanta Chapter of RESULTS is currently focused on spreading awareness for the need of a Global Fund for Education (GFE). President Obama pledged to capitalize a $2 billion “Global Education Fund” and to leverage U.S. commitments through the Fast Track Initiative, a financing mechanism that coordinates increased resources for countries whose education plans have been technically vetted and endorsed.
Many foreign countries still charge "school fees" where children are required to pay fees to attend school, which they cannot afford. This has caused many children to not be able to get a basic education.
The GFE will help remedy this with its goal to provide all children with at least a basic 6th grade education. Of the 75 million primary-aged children not in school, 55 percent are girls, roughly three-quarters live in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia, and some 40 million are in conflict-affected countries or emerging states. Tens of millions more children drop out of school before grade five because schools are overcrowded, unsafe, poorly equipped, poorly managed and have inadequately trained teachers. If current trends continue, 58 out of the 86 countries that have not yet achieved universal primary enrollment will fail to do so by 2015.
Why is Education So Important?
Education is a basic human right and a significant factor in the development of children, communities, and countries. Opening classroom doors to all children, especially girls, will help break the intergenerational chains of poverty because education is intrinsically linked to all development goals, such as supporting gender empowerment, improving child health and maternal health, reducing hunger, fighting the spread of HIV and diseases of poverty, spurring economic growth, and building peace.
Particularly for women and girls, the economic and personal empowerment that education provides allows them to make healthier choices for themselves and their families. Benefits of girls’ education include not only the reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS, but reduction of poverty, improvement of the health of women and their children, delay of marriage, reduction of female genital cutting, and increase in self-confidence and decision-making power. On average, for a girl in a poor country, each additional year of education beyond grades three or four will lead to 20 percent higher wages and a 10 percent decrease in the risk of her own children dying of preventable causes.
The Atlanta RESULTS Chapter's goal is to create support and awareness of this issue, put pressure on politicians to support this cause, and to make the Global Fund for Education a reality.
WHO SHOULD JOIN?
Anyone who is interested in activism, who hasn't lost hope that they can change the world and make a difference, and wants to ACT should join our group.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT RESULTS go to: http://results.org/
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