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 \u201ctotal eradication of poverty in all its forms\u201d. 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 \u2013 volunteers and activists of \u201cSocial dialogue 2001\u201d and Mihaela Boyanova – volunteer and activist of the P.U.L.S. \u2013 Pernik Foundation. In this declaration the young people share a number of disturbing facts \u2013 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\u2019s problems in today\u2019s 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.\u00a0
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\u2019s organizers in the elaboration of the \u201cHealth, civil and intercultural education\u201d standard as well as other adherent standards \u2013 general education standard, curriculum, etc.
Nicoleta Popkostadinova, a finalist in NOVA TV\u2019s competition \u201cThe Change\u201d 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.
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