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Social and environmental heroes celebrated in Bristol 17 campaign
An inspiring range of local heroes are being celebrated in a campaign to encourage more people to take positive action to help tackle poverty, inequality and climate change.
A series of 17 short videos, one for each of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (also known as Global Goals), are being released from Tuesday, highlighting a Bristol hero – from a range of wards and spectrums of society – who is doing something that helps reach that Goal.
The content is fun, creative and inspirational and includes a way for the viewer to engage with that Goal to bring positive change where they are, being part of community-based action to help reach global goals.
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The videos will be released one per week across social media platforms and on the new Global Goals Centre website as a countdown to the major climate conference, COP-26, being held in Glasgow in November, to engage a wider audience with the climate and inequality agendas and show the relevance of these issues to our city and our daily lives.
Nick Ballard from ACORN is the hero for the first Goal – No Poverty.
Nick was nominated by Eastside Community Trust, who said: “ACORN’s campaigns tackle both the causes and effects of poverty. Nick has grown ACORN into a national force to be reckoned with, championing issues that make a real difference. He is a real local hero.”
Global Goals Centre, an education charity using creative ways to inspire a fairer, greener future, has worked in partnership with 17 local community organisations, Bristol24/7’s Better Bristol and creative agency Tusko, to create this campaign, which is supported by Bristol City Council and the Bristol Climate Hub.
The #Bristol17 campaign will include many easy and affordable ways to get involved in local projects that make a real difference locally and globally.
All the heroes agreed that it is by people working together that we will bring a greener, fairer future for all.
In the words of Peninah Achieng-Kindberg, the hero for Goal 10, Reduced Inequalities, nominated by African Voices Forum: “Everyone needs to take action in whatever way they can.”
Watch the films and find ideas of what you can do to get involved at www.globalgoalscentre.org/bristol-17
Main image: Global Goals Centre
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