Announcing an advocacy Web site.

Announcing an advocacy Web site. ACEI ACEI Angiotensin Converting Enzyme InhibitorACEI Association for Childhood Education InternationalACEI Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland UN Representatives Lynn Staley and Eva Zygmunt-Fillwalk havecreated Equipping Teachers for Advocacy, a Web site dedicated toproviding teachers with worldwide resources to inform and educatestudent advocates. The site is maintained by Amanda Woods, a formergraduate student of Lynn's and Eva's, and currently afirst-year elementary teacher. The goal of the Web site is to facilitate progress toward theMillennium Development Goals “MDG” redirects here. For other uses, see MDG (disambiguation).The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. , particularly the achievement of universalprimary education (#2). In support of UNICEF's Midterm StrategicPlan, the site is centered around the understanding that the eradicationof poverty (#1), the promotion of gender equality (#3), and thereduction of child mortality (#4) have a direct impact onchildren's successful education. As a nongovernmental organization nongovernmental organization (NGO)Organization that is not part of any government. A key distinction is between not-for-profit groups and for-profit corporations; the vast majority of NGOs are not-for-profit. (NGO NGOabbr.nongovernmental organizationNoun 1. NGO - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal governmentnongovernmental organization ), ACEI actively supports these goals. The Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. Committee encourages ACEI members to strengthentheir resolve, and let their voices be heard, for children'srights The opportunity for children to participate in political and legal decisions that affect them; in a broad sense, the rights of children to live free from hunger, abuse, neglect, and other inhumane conditions. . Visit ACEI's newest Web link, Equipping Teachers forAdvocacy, at www.acei. org. Share the information with your colleaguesand students. As ACEI works to promote the inherent rights, education,and well-being of all children, Equipping Teachers for Advocacy willprovide educators with the resources and tools needed to educate and toadvocate for children's rights to survival, protection, anddevelopment. We can all work towards the objectives of this new Website, which are to foster quality educational opportunities for ALLchildren and to facilitate excellence in teacher education.Accomplishing these objectives will require collaboration with families,communities, and governments.