SDG 1

SDG 1 is: "End poverty in all its forms everywhere." This is an SDG badge.

Cub requirements

This was part of the 2019 National Cub Challenge.

Complete the FIRST and ONE of the other requirements:

1. Run the “Creating a Better World” Cub programme with your Pack to introduce the Cubs to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2. Think of ways you can promote the sustainable use of our natural resources within your community.
3. Create a poster to educate your community on how the misuse of our natural resources can lead to poverty.

Scout requirements

1. Discuss in your Patrol what poverty means, what needs to be done in your community to eradicate it and what your Troop and Patrol can do to help.
2. Improve your skills and get the next Scout Skills theme badge (Traveller, Discoverer, First Class, Springbok).
3. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Spend a night outdoors with your Patrol on a hard surface in cardboard shelters with only one blanket. Participate in collecting and donating useful items to a charitable organisation for at least one term.
4. Create a community event to train people on permaculture.

Rover requirements

1. Earn the Community Service Award.
2. With your Crew, develop a short video/presentation of this goal and show it to a Scout Troop or another Scouting body. Share your video/presentation (if digital) with the National Office.

Adult requirements

Complete TWO of the following:

1. Educate yourself on the reasons that cause poverty in a community near you or a group/ sector in society. By educating and finding out more, you can establish where best your time and effort can be spent to help the poor gain a skill or knowledge to empower or help them to improve their prospects. Without skills training or support to change their circumstances some people or groups of people often feel trapped in a cycle of poverty and need help to improve themselves. Write up a short article on your observations to help educate others and propose some interventions that could help those in your chosen community, group, or sector.
2. Select a lesser known cause and organise a short term intervention that will help the beneficiaries of the cause. Write up your story and give full reasons for choosing this cause.
3. Use your skills or knowledge to train someone, or a small group, who need your skills or knowledge. By doing this training help them see how they could start to generate an income for themselves. Write up your experiences (in your language), including what you and they have learnt and achieved and share the story in a blog. Some examples, there are plenty more:
   1. If your field of expertise lies in computers, help others to become computer literate.
   2. If you enjoy handcrafts, e.g. knitting, sewing, carpentry welding: teach someone else your skill.
   3. If your skill is in permaculture, help others to gain this skill.
4. Engage with a poor family and assist them to obtain something that they are striving for. The solution should be sustainable for the family, after you have left. Share your story. For example:
   1. The ability or means to pay school fees or buy school books.
   2. Building a better shelter.
   3. Finding employment.
5. Become a mentor to a person in need and mentor them to gain qualifications or training or find work.
6. Partner with your company and provide a means of supporting a number of poverty stricken members of society on a sustainable basis.

See also

• SDG badges
• 2019 SDG challenge
• Scouts for SDGs