The need to raise awareness

We recently wrote to Mary Kenny, a professional writer and columnist with the Sunday Independent, asking for a submission for our book project.

Ms Kenny wasn’t sure if she would be the right person to make such a contribution and admitted “I know very little about education, and I suspect that what I know is probably rather out of date, as it is a few years since my own children were in primary school.

Neither am I very well acquainted with the Millennium Development Goals. I haven’t a clue what “21 quantifiable targets” means. A lot of this bureaucratic jargon obfuscates more than it clarifies. You’d have to explain a lot more to me, so that I could get a clear picture of what you have in mind.”

Ms Kenny wished us much success with the project, saying, “If I knew more about what it actually was, I might be able to comment on it more helpfully.”

While we had explained what the book was about this response highlights the importance of our project; to raise awareness. Isn’t it a sad situation that the people who write columns for us every week in our newspapers don’t know about these important goals? Wouldn’t it be great to get more journalists writing about the MDG goals and making more people aware through their newspaper columns?

Mrs L


--Read Mary’s new book: “Crown & Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy”, published by New Island Books. (ISBN: 978-1-905494-98-9).