South Korea Vows To Donate $200 Million In Aid To Poor Countries As One Of Its Measures To Improve Contributions Toward The U.N.’s New Global Agenda, Says President Park Geun Hye
During her speech at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on Saturday, South Korean President Park Geun Hye announces the country's efforts toward the UN's new global agenda.
Park reveals on her speech that South Korea will give $200 million in aid to deprived countries. The country also aims to provide quality education among girls on its initiative "Better Life for Girls," which is slated to be started in 2016.
"Providing health care and education service to future generations, including girls, would be the most certain investment that could guarantee a sustainable future," Park said during her speech.
She also says the South Korea will "shore up its support for education in developing countries," as reported by Yonhap News Sept. 27.
"The establishment of vocational, polytechnic and high-tech institutes will be supported, so as to reinforce higher-quality education in developing countries. Scholarship programs that bring talented students to Korea will also be expanded," she said.
Park added that the country will also send teachers to those countries that are in need of instructors.
"South Korea is a vivid testament to all that education can do, to how much individual lives can be transformed, how far nations can go," Park said.
The three-day UN Sustainable Development Summit started on Friday, wherein the UN adopted a new global agenda. The new global agenda to end poverty in 2030 was approved by the 193 members of UN.
"It is an agenda for people, to end poverty in all its forms," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon says during the opening ceremony, as noted by UN News Centre on September 25. "It is an agenda for shared prosperity, peace and partnership that conveys the urgency of climate action and is rooted in gender equality and respect for the rights of all. Above all, it pledges to leave no one behind."
On the other hand, Park described the objective as "a grave promise" to the upcoming generations. She also asks the UN members to execute the new global agenda "in good faith."
