"This is a campus Initiative, an integration of projects on SDGs in health and well-being, education, climate change, sanitation, responsible consumption, and areas in capacity building. This is to foster useful partnerships for the goals and advocacy to set numbers in action with a vision of making our campus a sustainable community of individuals equipped with knowledge and skills for sustainable practices. We believe creating a sustainable university community will empower the students to lead sustainable actions in their local communities.
In this project, we shall be hosting periodic dialogues on sustainability issues, bringing together students, lecturers and entire university community to have meaningful discussions around sustainability, to hear from experts so that everyone gets clear understanding of sustainability and the SDGs, making them practical concepts and coming out with practicable ideas and proposals to solve problems facing the university and advance the SDGs, where everyone will have roles to play.
To advance good health and well-being in the university, this project looks at creating awareness on critical health events, especially HIV and other STIs, cancer, sexual and reproductive health, substance abuse, and mental health. This will be done through campus podcasts, weekend host shows, periodic webinars, social media campaigns, and information booths at school events, outreach services, and other educative programmes at campus and department levels We will emphasize fostering understanding of these health events, exploring measures of addressing and avoiding them.
This project also aims at creating awareness of the effects of climate change on mental health. This relation is rarely known. However, there are serious issues of eco-anxiety, trauma from extreme weather events, and mental strains of adapting to climate change. Increasing awareness on this, we will emphasize actions to combat climate change as a step in fighting this mental distress that affects about 20% of students across the world.
To promote good sanitation and responsible consumption, the project includes sanitation exercises and training programmes where we are looking at training students on how to use plastic waste to produce sustainable furniture for the school. This, they can practice in their local communities to promote sanitation and responsible consumption through recycling while making economic gains.
As part of the capacity building and promoting, we will collaborate with other organizations to organize skills training programmes on campus, to unearth talents especially in young ladies to be more useful in simple ways beyond academia, promoting gender equity in that regard and teach other technical and vocational skills, equipping students with lifelong skills for economic improvement and positive work in their communities. In these, will be incorporated, the art of problem solving will be incorporated and how they can use technology to solve personal and contemporary issues.
To advance SDG 4, inclusive and quality education for all, we will collaborate with charity, and other NGOs to set up campus based scholarships and make it easier for needy students to access these scholarships, draw other scholarship opportunities closer to the student body and help needy students to obtain these scholarships.
This project’s ultimate aim is to ensure that all learners in our university campus, acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, a target of SGD 4."