International Development Week (February 2-8, 2025)
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The week of February 2-8, 2025, has been proclaimed as "International Development Week" by the Honourable Tracy Schmidt, Acting Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning.
International Development Week is observed across the country and seeks to inspire Canadians, especially young Canadians, to deepen their knowledge and understanding of global inequities and to take steps toward alleviating their effects.
This year’s theme, Go for the Goals, emphasizes Manitoba’s and Canada’s commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals as set out in the United Nations Agenda 2030.
Those goals include ending poverty in all its forms, ending hunger, reducing global and local inequalities in health, gender and access to quality education and taking steps to address climate change.
Global challenges reinforce the need to work together as local, national and international communities. Our shared responsibility as global citizens includes attending to one another’s health and well-being.