Overview 67 MILLION children are not enrolled. The UN's Education for All goals must be met by 2015. Estimates are that it will cost $16B. BUT get this: annual GDP increases by 1% with each year of additional schooling implemented. Hello world, isn't this a great investment? Pardon me, it is but it's not just that. Education is a RIGHT! The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is the only existing global mechanism focusing on basic education, operating in 46 countries. Its proven success resulted in more countries wanting their programs, and now faces a financial gap. The world is way behind on the Education MDG. The World Bank decided to pledge an additional $750M to speed up progress -- why not invest in GPE and its approved educational programs? Key players Come on Canada! Increase our yearly $21M GPE investment to $125M to bridge the gap for 2015. Our foreign aid invests in the World Bank, why not promote the GPE? To learn more, click below: Overview The 1990 World Summit addressed the issue of 40 000 children dying of preventable diseases every year. Since then, this number has been cut my half, most notably due to basic immunizations for polio and the measles. Canada hosted the G8 in 2010 and created the Muskoka Initiative. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) is a leader in developing cutting-edge vaccines,including ones for pneumococcal diseases. Key players Please, Canada: Make sure we keep up a leadership role in child and maternal health; our government already cut back on our initial $1B pledge. GAVI's first replenishment occurred in June 2011. Canada should be committing $100M as it is also an investment towards the Muskoka Initiative. To learn more, click below: Overview With an example such as the Grameen Foundation in Bangladesh, microcredit is proving to be an excellent self-sustaining tool for the poor. A loan as small as $20 for tools or a loom is now possible for them. While still a topic of controversy to some economists, there are impressive return rates from borrowers and a strengthening of women roles in community as household contributors. The Microcredit Summit Campaign is working to provide access to financial services to now, 175 million of the world's poorest people and to support 100 million of them to cross the poverty threshold ($1.25/day) - all by 2015. MSC also wants to create a 'Seal of Excellence' to be given to microcredit instutions (MI) who have the best results. This award, of course, will need an elaborate rating scheme developed. It is to establish the credibility and reliability of MIs for continued support from donors. Key players Overview This is the foundation for all of the other issues. Lack of proper sanitation and hygiene leads to poor health, which then create a barrier to education, or economic prosperity. Over 2 BILLION people don't have access to a proper toilet. When teenage girls begin to menstruate, they drop out of school. Diarrhoeal diseases are the leading killer for children under 5, and all it takes is a bar of soap. Key players NOV19: World Toilet Day We ask Canada to: Invest in the Global Sanitation Fund, through the UN-initiated Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. This will also tie in to our Muskoka Initiative, ensuring child and maternal health. To learn more, click below: Overview People living with HIV in poverty, actually die from tuberculosis (TB). TB is a silent killer, a complex disease laden with stigma. More than 2B people have the TB bacilli but UN's 40% of cases are 'missing'. The Global Fund has been a huge player in fighting TB. Due to donor countries pulling their contributions from the economic crisis, the Fund's 2012 replenishment has been cancelled COMPLETELY. Key players Go Canada! Canada has provided over 1/3 of all funding for the worldwide Stop TB Partnership. CIDA helped launched the initiative, TB-Reach, with multi-year grant support. TB-Reach is a champion TB detection and for the innovative diagnostic tool, GeneXpert. We're awesome. Help the Global Fund Canada is doing alright amidst the crisis, let's help the Global Fund as much as we can. In fact, we are short of our 0.7 target, proposed by the late PM Lester B. Pearson in the 1960s. We're only at 0.33 and it's been 50 years! To learn more, click below:                                                                                                                            March 14, 2012 This semester has been pretty light, in terms of RESULTS activities, with just the education petition for February. This Wednesday is the March meeting of the Ottawa Group. So, how about completing one last action before the school-year ends? March 24th is World TB Day. Let's meet with the Ottawa Group, to write our draft letter, and to learn more. There will be a guest speaker! Larry Reed, the new Director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, is coming to the meeting! It's an opportunity to meet the new Director and get updates on the campaign. Please be on time! FEBRUARY ACTION: World Bank to fund Education Our petition has surpassed its goal of 1000 signatures over ~2 months with 1300. Most of them are paper copies, who knew that they would surpass the speedy online petition? November 26-28, 2011: National Conference Check the facebook album November 22, 2011 'How to be an advocate' October 18, 2011: RESULTS Fundraiser Guest speaker: Carole Nyirenda (bio) Montgomery Legion 7:00 p.m. October 13-16, 2011 oneworldarts Film Festival We will have a table at the event! September 26, 2011: Pauly D at uOttawa Guest speaker: Paul Dewar, NDP MONDAY at the AGORA STAGE 7:00 p.m. Recap: What an awesome event. Paul was extremely informative and he motivated all of us to voice our concerns. His main message was clear: If you want change, we have to do something about! We need to get ourselves aware of pressing issues and seek entry points on how to generate buzz to get everyone involved. September 8, 2011: Clubs Week Thanks for those who came to see us at our table! We were thrilled to see how many people were interested in becoming global citizens. August 22, 2011: R.I.P. Jack "TO YOUNG CANADIANS: All my life I have worked to make things better. Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. I have met and talked with so many of you about your dreams, your frustrations, and your ideas for change. More and more, you are engaging in politics because you want to change things for the better. Many of you have placed your trust in our party. As my time in political life draws to a close I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. Your energy, your vision, your passion for justice are exactly what this country needs today. You need to be at the heart of our economy, our political life, and our plans for the present and the future." - Jack Layton's Letter to Canada Picture above: Candelight Vigil, Parliament Hill, (Monday, August 22, 2011) Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Happy New Year and Happy New Semester! Here is our calendar for the semester: Friday, November 19, 2010: World Toilet Day The Health Promotion team of uOttawa along with WaterCan, made this event happen at UCU. Through a bit of humour, there was a SQUAT-A-THON where students can win prizes. But the main message is that it helps spread awareness about the global sanitation crisis. Andrea Helfer from WaterCan showed me this excellent documentary by Vanguard, which I thought gave a very truthful glimpse on this very issue (- Rochelle) November, 2010: Fundraiser re-cap The event was a success! $4 145! If you add this to existing monthly RESULTS donors and existing monthly RESULT.ED Donors - the total that Ottawa/Gatinea brings in annually is closer to $20,000 (email from Chris Dendys) November Fundraiser SNACKS + REFRESHMENTS + ENTERTAINMENT! Please download the posters for more information: Thursday, September 16, 2010 Two of our members got published! Patrick got published by The Ottawa Citizen with his wonderful article, Value for sanitation and Rochelle's LTE piece entitled Scholarly Sanitation is on our very own University paper, The Fulcrum! Check them out! Thursday, September 9, 2010: Clubs Fair Despite the drizzle, we had a great time at the Clubs Fair! We were fortunate to be in between two cool groups: The Chinese Student Association who were giving out free shirts, and the Indian Student Association with great music! So many people were interested in the group and supported our cause and petition, and there were those that just wanted the free cookie :D. Overall, we got plenty of people on our mailing list and signatures! Here is our Fall Semester schedule: March 25, 2010 Although the subject of toilets and proper hygiene can be funny at times, it really is a big problem in certain areas of the world. Personally, we would have never thought of sanitation as being a 'luxury'. It isn't the most appetizing subject either, but we want you to be our guest, we want you to be aware because awareness is the first step towards improvement. Therefore, we wanted to have a more formal event to meet the importance of the issue. We thank Leslie Moreland from WaterCan and Sabina Saini from RESULTS for being our guest speakers. Your talks were inspiring and we plan to stay in touch to continue advocating for sanitation. March 20, 2010 Sadia has been featured as an Everyday Hero Profile on the RESULTS website! January 31, 2010 Our revised petition for the PM Stephen Harper is ready! If you can, please circulate it and get back to us. Your help is much needed. Word (Compatible mode): Our petition for Stephen Harper January 29, 2010 Rochelle had her op-ed published with University of Ottawa's The Fulcrum. It is on the second page of this week's issue: Aid in the face of poverty January 26, 2010 Our own Stephen Harper has published a rare op-ed in the Toronto Star. "As president of the G8 in 2010, Canada will champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world's poorest regions. Members of the G8 can make a tangible difference in maternal and child health and Canada will be making this the top priority in June." Read full article... Note: Full description of Executive Roles are in our Constitution Sadia Jama Youth Group pioneer In the school year of 2008-2009, with the help of the RESULTS Ottawa Group, a University of Ottawa chapter was created under her lead. She is starting a group at the University of Saskatchewan. Rochelle Buenviaje Youth Group Leader I will be the one coordinating between the University of Ottawa and the RESULTS headquarters. As Youth Group Leader, I will try to engage youth in general and not only in the University atmosphere. I run this website, and advertisement and media-related items such as posters, pamphlets, and displays for events. Attends Ottawa E&A meetings. Sage Jordan uOttawa co-President, Faculty of Political Sciences Officer Sage will also help out with coordinating meetings and events on campus. As a PoliSci student, he is in touch with great professors and politics-savvy students on campus! Attends Ottawa E&A meetings. Serena Muboyayi uOttawa co-President, Faculty of Conflict & Human Rights Officer Serena will help out with coordinating meetings and events. Serena has attended Clubs Training and is well informed about the administrative work on running a student club on campus. Laura Legault Faculty of Political Sciences Officer Laura is also a PoliSci student and she will be our portal to a faculty full of potential global citizens and future decision-makers! Her main role is advocating our mission within the faculty, as well as help organize events We are looking for International Development and Globalization officers! Patrick Chan Faculty of Education Officer Patrick helps edit and give letters that "hook" it needs to stand out and increase its chances of getting published. Khadra Jama Treasurer, Faculty of Education Officer Dominique Massé Dominique is in charge of translation. Attends Ottawa E&A meetings. Ali Kasraee Nina Rentel Scheliga Mauricio Buschinelli Niyi Abimbola Faculty of Health Sciences Officer Kaoutar Kaddouri Marcus Ray Naglene Eid March Ottawa E&A under construction.