Awesome meeting on Millennium Development Goals tonight. Wellie did a great job outlining what these goals are and gave a good background information. I think this was great to set the tone for good discussions and to give people new to the topic a context. The discussions were great and everyone was comfortable either adding their two or no cents.

My thoughts on the MDG’s remains the same. We will NOT see sustainable change in the pace of development when the agenda is being set by Multilateral organizations, and countries who are detached from the realities on the ground in Africa and other developing regions.

Sustainable change MUST and WILL be homegrown. We will set ourselves up for success in the world when we decide to do more listening and paying attention to what the locals are saying. Lets stop being too busy trying to find the solutions in the West without promoting the much needed dialogue.

I am equally excited as everyone in the meeting today to see what will happen in 2015 when it becomes evident that the MDG’s did not meet the expectations set.

There is no direct solution and no right way to do development but there is one thing we all know, development is a shared responsibility and it needs to be locally owned.

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It was great meeting our new members today and we look forward to seeing everyone at our next event soon.

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 I believe a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. I am driven by my passion and dreams to encourage local ownership of change in Africa and to play an active role in Africa's development led by the youth and children. This is my life's purpose and I live it in service to Africa. Follow me @tazaglo