5 April 2013 marked 1,000 days left to deliver the eight Millennium Development Goals, and 4,594 days since 150 countries made a commitment towards achieving this. If the world can deliver on these commitments, this could mean, amongst other bold achievements, meeting Millennium Development Goal 4: reducing the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, and saving the lives of 4.4 million children in these last 1,000 days.
Save the Children is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children's rights in development, participation, education, protection. In Nigeria, Save the Children collaborated with the United Nation's Millennium Campaign on this day, by hosting a #Post2015 Social Media Hub. Social Media activists came together from across Nigeria to channel debate and participation on post-2015 agenda. Social Media Activists were empowered to mobilise the public to take action on the voting site www.myworld2015.org via their individual social media presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn and other various social media platforms. This was a platform to mobilise and engage online and new media users in the post 2015 development debate by giving each and every Nigerian an opportunity to vote on www.myworld2015.org for changes they want to see in 2015.
Here is a link to the publication on the Nations Newspaper: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news-extra/save-the-children-hosts-post-2015-development-consultation/
Join the online conversations on Twitter @savechildrenNG @myworld2015, follow hashtags #Post2015 #Post2015NG #MDGmomentum