Sustainable development goals post-2015 and the young people

The goals were adopted on September 25th 2015 by the UN and the 17 goals have 169 specific sub-goals or tasks. The first one is “total eradication of poverty in all its forms”. The efforts will also be directed at ensuring proper education, good health, gender equality, access to reliable and stable energy, and also sustainable economic growth leading to a higher employment rate.
During the meeting was presented a declaration by young people among which Rosi Kostadinova and Velislav Petkov – volunteers and activists of “Social dialogue 2001” and Mihaela Boyanova – volunteer and activist of the P.U.L.S. – Pernik Foundation. In this declaration the young people share a number of disturbing facts – the increase of early pregnancies, the number of overweight people, substance abuse, etc., and call for health education for everyone and the implementation of health and sexual education as a separate subject in schools. They believe that informed decisions are a basic factor in the personal development of each individual and that information gives the possibility of personal choice. According to them the implementation of health and sexual education in schools can solve a multitude of young people’s problems in today’s society.
Anina Chileva, head expert at NCPHA presented the concept of health education and the necessity of ensuring a systematic health education in Bulgarian schools. She pictured childhood and adolescence as an especially important period during which vital life abilities are formed, and also data about Bulgaria that illustrate the necessity of establishing a mechanism for knowledge, abilities and positive attitudes towards healthy behavior of the students and the young people. 
Part of the discussion were the comments about the newly-adopted Law for pre-school and school education and the standards which it sets, and also the necessity of the participation of the round table’s organizers in the elaboration of the “Health, civil and intercultural education” standard as well as other adherent standards – general education standard, curriculum, etc.
Nicoleta Popkostadinova, a finalist in NOVA TV’s competition “The Change” and Reach for Change, presented in short the idea for the implementation of a health and sexual education website, which is being tested at the present time.