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Sustainable Development Goals

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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Sourced from the UN: Investments in infrastructure – transport, irrigation, energy and information and communication technology – are crucial to…

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Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all

Sourced from the UN: Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day with…

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Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy

Sourced from the UN: Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today. Be it…

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Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Sourced from the UN: Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live…

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Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Sourced from the UN: While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including…

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Goal 4: Quality Education

Sourced from the UN: Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to improving quality…

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Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Sourced from the UN: Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Significant…

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Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Sourced from the UN: It is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food. If done right,…

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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions…

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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Sourced from the UN: Sustainable consumption and production is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access…

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Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

Sourced from the UN: The world’s oceans – their temperature, chemistry, currents and life – drive global systems that make…

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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Sourced from the UN: Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and…

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Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

Sourced from the UN: Forests cover 30.7 percent of the Earth’s surface and, in addition to providing food security and…

Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Sourced from the UN: A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society. These…

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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

Sourced from the UN: The threats of international homicide, violence against children, human trafficking and sexual violence are important to…

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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Sourced from the UN: The international community has made significant strides towards lifting people out of poverty.  The most vulnerable…

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Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Sourced from the UN: Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their…

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AFS programs foster transformation that lasts a lifetime. Today’s exchange students are tomorrow’s changemakers: diplomats; thought leaders; influencers in the international business and non-profit communities. Every new exchange student is another global citizen in progress—an individual primed to help build a more just and peaceful world.

And the impact doesn’t stop with the students. Host families’ lives are transformed by new members from across the globe and host communities gain greater cultural diversity. That’s THE AFS EFFECT.

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