My first artifact is my UN Millennium Development Goals Presentation that I completed in my International Affairs Scholars Seminar. For this assignment, four of my classmates and I were assigned to one of eight UN Development Goals to research, write a paper about, and give a presentation on. We were also asked to pick a region of the world that is especially affected by our Goal to focus on. My group was assigned to the fifth Millennium Goal, to improve maternal health, and the region we chose to study was India. While completing this project as a group, my portion was to answer what our millennium goal is and why it is important.
While working on this project, I gained an insight to the world around me that I did not previously have. One of the reasons for this is because I am a male and maternal health does not really affect my life. Secondly, I am fortunate enough to live in the United States, where we do not have many issues in regards to maternal health as much as countries on the other side of the world. However, from doing my research for this project, I was able to learn about the lack of maternal healthcare in other parts of the world, and how it significantly affects many people. I now realize that maternal health really does need to be improved, and that the United Nations was right by including it as one of their eight Millennium Goals.