Ensuring Environmental Sustainability in South Florida
Tues, Oct 8, 5:30-6:30pm
Miami Dade College – North Campus
11380 N.W. 27th Ave.
Miami, FL 33167
Room 2151 Building 2
Register with Nicole Reyes, NICOLE.REYES003@MYMDC.NET
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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Service-Learning Program, a program of the Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy at the North Campus presents
Ensuring Environmental Sustainability in South Florida
Speaker: Sam Van Leer,
Founder and President of Urban Paradise Guild
Presentation focuses on the 7th Goal of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which is Ensuring Environmental Sustainability. Mr. Sam Van Leer founded and is president of Urban Paradise Guild (UPG), one of the most respected environmental organizations in South Florida. UPG focuses in maintaining but more so, replacing the natural habitats in our community, creating sustainable and eatable community gardens, and cultivates seed for Haiti. UPG has been named iCED’s Community of the Year for multiple years at various campuses.
Website: http://www.urban-paradise.org/.
For those who wish to make a Service-Learning Commitment, S-L Contracts will be signed.
The presentation will include a description of the UPG Interns & Mentors program.
For more info about these opportunities and our Calendar, see http://www.urban-paradise.org/Volunteering .
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Service-Learning Program extends the opportunity for students to enhance and expand their education, professional and personal skills, understanding and knowledge about the realities of international issues that affect our surrounding community through service. It focuses on the awareness and understanding of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG). The UNMDG are eight goals that were identified and agreed by the governments around the world in 2000 to tackle on the pressing global social issues and to accomplish them by 2015. Regardless if these goals are fully accomplished or not by 2015, it is an achievement already for one that the global community has identified the common goals and another that there has been strives already in all goals in working towards alleviating the social problems.
