Bandar Lampung – In today’s globe, we have the largest generation of young people in history, with big majority of them residing in developing nations, where they constitute the majority of the population. The youth are automatically agents of change, which means their participation are heavily needed to promote the goals of sustainable development in order to enhance the health of the world and the lives of people.
Students may acquire the traits of a global citizen, an individual who is involved in their local and global communities while displaying empathy for those around them by engaging in the SDGs. On that note, Department of Communication Studies in Lampung University made the students to partnered up as a group with nine members max with the purpose of being critical educational resource for the locals.
As a means of giving visibility to the long existing issues, each group have the opportunity to pick one of many SDGs they want to make a contribution by utilizing communication channels as the medium to promote awareness champaign about the related issues and also complemented by hands-on experience to demonstrate their aimed goals.
Given the fact that the students are divided into twenty groups from two classes available in the Department of Communication Studies, the chosen SDGs by each group are vary as expected. It ranged from fulfilling the access to clean water and sanitation, advocating gender equality in working environments, making a change to educational quality through socialization, stunting prevention, and so forth. They had some weeks to achieve the set of end goals.
The results matched up to the expectations with the success rate of SDGs done by the students rests to a large extent on an effective monitoring, review, and follow-up process. Department of Communication Studies academics wished that sometime later down the road, all the students are called to enact change on a larger scale by enabling them to actively participated in the local communities.