IN the United Nations World Water Development Report 2023, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or Unesco in March 2023, about 2 billion people in the world did not have access to safe drinking water and 3.6 billion lacked access to safely managed sanitation.
THE French Embassy and the Health Department recently ideated plans for unified health-care provision to all Filipinos, including healthy meals for school children. Led by France and Finland, more than 75 countries have joined the “School Meals Coalition” global initiative that aims for all children to have access to healthy…
The 2021 school session is due to start on Jan 21 next year. The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) examinations are scheduled to start on Feb 22 and March 8 respectively. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, schoolchildren nationwide have faced the unfortunate situation of having only two full months of in-class sessions, in February and August.
What a challenge 2021 will be for schools. Indeed, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has a big task ahead planning for the upcoming school session and it urgently needs to get its act together.
There are many issues that need to be considered and properly planned to ensure that schools run smoothly and safely for everyone involved.
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+ December 19, 2020 THE United Nations Children’s Fund or Unicef recently announced that it would help feed children in England.
I’m being serious. This is not a prank. So stop looking over your shoulder. You heard me right the first time.
Yes, England. That England. Its capital London is one of the globe’s leading financial centers along with New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong. England is part of the United Kingdom, which has the sixth largest Gross Domestic Product in the world, according to data published in April by the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database.
Having grown up in a kampong in the 1950s, Sim knows these dangers first-hand. “We didn’t have a toilet in the house, but a bucket system in the outhouse; there were a lot of incidents of typhoid fever, cholera and intestinal worms.”
Around one billion people still face the indignity of defecating in the open today, and diarrhoeal diseases a direct consequence of poor sanitation kill more children every year than Aids, malaria and measles combined.
Through WTO’s advocacy work, revolutions in sanitation have begun taking place all over the world over the past two decades. In 2013, the organisation was granted consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and achieved another milestone for the global sanitation movement that year when 122 countries co-sponsored a United Nations (UN) resolution tabled by the Singapore government to designate World Toilet Day, a WTO initiative held annually on 19 November, as an official UN day.