Alpha Phi Omega and the SDGs goals: A Path to Sustainable Development
leadership
The Eagle represents the strength, vision, and soaring spirit of Alpha Phi Omega members as they strive to make a difference in their communities and the world.
cardinal Principles of Alpha phi omega
friendship
The Forget-Me-Not flower is the symbol of Alpha Phi Omega, representing remembrance and loyalty.
service
The Oak tree is a significant symbol for Alpha Phi Omega, representing strength, endurance, and growth.
ramon Tarrosa franco
founder
Alpha Theta Chapter ’76
I.D.# 0108-1976-06965
Authentic and Guaranteed APO
Non-Life and Still Alive
ellyn albano Fogarty
founder
Alpha Chapter ’79
Authentic and Guaranteed APO
Non-Life and Still Alive
alpha phi omega helping the community
Our operational roots at MEFF Initiative and EF & MF Initiative – APO Global Community Outposts traced back to 1925, originating from Lafayette College, U.S.A., when Lord Brod Frank Reed Horton founded Alpha Phi Omega with a focus on Leadership, Friendship, and Service.
The MEFF Initiative was founded by Mon Tarrosa Franco and Ellyn Albano Fogarty on July 08, 2022, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The MEFF Initiative works with business, government and academe to build a framework for a circular economy anchored with the five 5 pillars of sustainability that is aligned with.
The MEFF Initiative and the EF & MF Initiative partnered with 17 Sustainable Goals of United Nations. We are dedicated to serving people and communities with passion and commitment.
Our approach creates a framework for driving positive change, anchoring The MEFF Initiative to the five pillars of sustainability (people, planet, prosperity, peace, partnership) and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our approach creates a framework for driving positive change THAT IS RESTORATIVE AND REGENERATIVE BY DESIGN anchoring The MEFF Initiative to the five pillars of sustainability (people, planet, prosperity, peace, partnership) and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Here’s how we align The MEFF Initiative with each pillar and the SDGs Goals.
People:
SDGs Goals aimed at eradicating poverty and hunger, ensuring good health and well-being, promoting quality education, achieving gender equality, and empowering all individuals.
SDG 1: No Poverty – Foster economic opportunities and social support networks to eliminate poverty.
SDG 2: Good Health and Well-being – Emphasize efforts that improve both physical and mental well-being, encourage healthy habits, and educate about healthcare concerns.
SDG 4 – Focuses on quality education, aiming to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
SDG 5: – Aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Planet
SDGs Goals that involve taking care of our natural resources, fighting climate change, protecting wildlife, and using the oceans and land in a way that keeps them healthy for the future.
SDG 6: This goal aims to ensure access to clean water and sanitation for everyone, as well as improve water quality, wastewater treatment, and water-use efficiency across all sectors.
SDG 12: It aims to promote resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and provide access to basic services, green and decent jobs, and a better quality of life for all.
SDG 13:
This goal aims to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It focuses on strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
SDG 6: aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This goal targets issues such as access to safe and affordable drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene for everyone, everywhere.
SDG 14: This goal aims to protect marine and coastal ecosystems from pollution, overfishing, and other forms of degradation, as well as to promote sustainable fisheries and the conservation of marine biodiversity.
SDG 15: Focuses on protecting, restoring, and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainable forest management, combating desertification, and halting and reversing land degradation and biodiversity loss.
PROSPERITY
SDGs Goals that seek to promote economic growth, create job opportunities, and ensure access to basic services for all.
SDG 8 -Focuses on promoting sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
SDG 9 – It aims to build infrastructure, promote industrialization, and drive innovation in a sustainable manner to support economic development and human well-being.
Peace
SDGs Goals to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
SDG 16 – Focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Partnership
SDGs Goals to emphasizes the importance of collaboration and cooperation among governments, civil society, and the private sector to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
SDG 17 – focused on strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development. This goal recognizes that achieving sustainable development requires the mobilization of resources, capacity-building, technology transfer, and more.