
Quality Education
Education is the key that will allow many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved. When people are able to get quality education they can break from the cycle of poverty. Education therefore helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality.


International Day of Peace 2020
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.


Welcome Back! Peace is September’s Theme
Notre Dame Virtual School’s Theme for September is Peace. In the video below, Jeremy Gilley, founder of Peace One Day describes the impact one person — each of us — could make learning and living peace in our world today in his video: “Introduction to Peace One Day (view below).”


Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. The goal is to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. “95% of urban expansion in the next decades will take place in developing countries.”


Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals, otherwise known as the Global Goals, build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015.


Responsible Consumption and Production
Achieving economic growth and sustainable development requires that we urgently reduce our ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume goods and resources.


Reducing Inequalities
The Sustainable Development Goals Explained: Reduced Inequalities by United Nations



Quality Education SDG #4
Why does education matter? Education is the key that will allow many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved.


Partnerships for the Goals
Notre Dame Virtual School will focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #1: No Poverty.


No Poverty
Notre Dame Virtual School will focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #1: No Poverty.


Zero Hunger
Notre Dame Virtual School will focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger.


Climate Action
Notre Dame Virtual School will focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #13 for Climate Action.


Life on Land
Human life depends on the earth as much as the ocean for our sustenance and livelihoods.


Clean Water and Sanitation
Notre Dame Virtual School will focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #6.


SDG #14: Life Below Water
The world’s oceans – their temperature, chemistry, currents and life – drive global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind.


Justice, Peace and strong Institutions
“Peaceful, just and inclusive societies are necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.”


Sr. Dorothy Stang, Martyr of the Amazon
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SNDdeN Care of Creation
The NDVS monthly theme is SNDdeN Care of Creation.


Gender Equality
Notre Dame Virtual School will focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.


Decent Work and Economic Growth SDG#8
The jobs and economy of the future will be urban. By 2030, 60% of the global population will live in cities. To ensure decent work and economic growth, local leaders face many challenges.