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What's Your MDG of Choice?

It seems a bit of a non-argument, but an intriguing one, nevertheless: Which MDG is the most important to achieve?

At the recent UN Youth Assembly, experts butted heads (jokingly) over this. One argued that Child Health is the most important, because it's a prerequisite for studying and contributing to society. Another argued that Education takes priority because people cannot practice healthy behaviors until they have the knowledge they need to do so. Someone else appealed for MDG #1: End Poverty and Hunger, saying until we accomplish that, people can be neither healthy, nor educated.

So, it seems a bit of a vicious circle. I personally believe that all the 8 MDGs are entirely interdependent. Still, I asked a few of the delegates at the Assembly about what they thought.

 

What about you? Do you think any one MDG takes precedence over the others, and if yes, why? The question also sparked a bit of discussion on our Facebook page.

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I want to take advantage to comments that most imporatant is to take priority to Education, becuase without education cann't practice healthy behaviors. In Afghanistan those have studied a bit completely different from those who did not see school room or books.

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