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If you could only fund one, which should come first?
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Emergency aid
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Education
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Healthcare
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Climate support
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If I could only fund one, I would choose Education. I believe that knowledge is the 'superpower' that helps us fix every other problem in the world. When we learn, we grow; and when we grow, we can save the planet together! If we fund education, we train the future doctors who provide Healthcare, the heroes who handle Emergency Aid, and the scientists who fix Climate change. 👩🔬🩺 Education gives children like me the tools to dream big, start YouTube channels, and create beautiful art that inspires the world. 🌟While emergency aid helps for today, education helps a country stay strong and independent forever. 🇧🇩
That’s a great point because if we fund emergency aid, it is a temporary fix to a problem that will be there for a long time from now, and the funding can just take emergency aid so far before it runs out and we can teach people to fix those problems in the long run and fix the root cause of these issues.
Its like funding for education better. Because education Will help in every funds here. 💗
I would choose education, because you need to be educated in life because if no one got educated no one would be able to be a doctor, a teacher or any job really. I saw one of the options was climate support but who would be able to support it if no one got educated? And who would program it would be stuck in the 21st century yeah it would be good for a 2 years or so but it’s intelligence would get old how would people earn money by standing on the streets? Because who knows how to build houses it doesn’t just come to you over night.
my group started with 30 points but we ended with 10
Hi guys I picked not sure because all the options listed are important to me and most likely everyone so I can not pick one and leave the rest and do noting my reasons are because if I decided to fund education one day climate change will hit hard and people might not have the resources to keep every one alive and if I pick health care over education the young children will not get educated about the world and they will most likely become illiterate and the world will become primitive once again, so I can not only pick one thank you for reading 👍.
I chose healthcare as we need to be healthy to live our daily lives. We also need to be healthy enough to reproduce our offspring, meaning that we’ll have more humans to help our world and everything in it. Being healthy is very important and I think it should be the most important thing to fund.
It is very useful for everything and everyone, and it is also a part of being humans. We should all try to keep healthy as it helps us live, and plus you don’t have to pay for healthcare. I think that healthcare should be funded more with more nurses or doctors and anyone who can help.
I disagree because education is needed to start a healthcare service. While healthcare is important for us humans to live, no nurses will even exist if education is ignored. And the idea of not paying for healthcare comes with health insurance. How will you get health insurance without a job? Even though the government pays for it, you need taxes from educated workers to even fund the hospitals.
Just curious, how do they fund schools in the UK?
The uk government funds for our schools is distributed through the Department for Education (DfE).
In 2024 and 2025, there was a 2 billion increase after Covid added and we had more money. (I’m not sure is Covid was in other countries, but basically it was a pandemic that killed a lot of people starting in 2019 to 2023. I think you can still get it, but not as often.)
I chose both education and healthcare.
The reason is because when you are not healthy or physically stable with your health, you will not be able to concentrate, and your mind will not be in the right state when being taught. But during the healthcare services, they might explain to you what is going on with your body and how to take care of your body and also how to manage the issue, and all this is learning because no knowledge is a waste.
Then I also chose education because most often we hear education is life on several accounts, and with education, there are several things you can do and understand because you have learnt about them. And you can put the knowledge you have gotten to use and use your brain to think and understand what is going on and make a solution to that problem.
Thank you for allowing me to share my opinion.
I chose education because without good education we can't learn to find ways to reduce climate change, give good health care and give emergency aid.
Education is the foundation of improvement in all of these options. Scientists studying climate change need good education, so do doctors and nurses, and people in governments.
People in the past have been able to do great things with education, even with little funding. Money helps but education is key to great things in the world.
If i could fund on one of these options,id choose very carefully depending on the situation.If my country,for example, doesnt need improvements and everything is well organised then id fund on climate support or emergency aid.If i dont have enough schools or enough vaccines then of course id use this fund on these.In my opinion,you must be strong enough to help the others,just like when we volunteer,we must have the time,the strength and the money to help the others.
In my own point of view, I believe that education would prioritize over all of the other options. Education is extremely significant. Education empowers people with knowledge and information furthermore it drives diversity, creativity and innovation between all people. Did you know that education was the reason of inventing efficient devices like the cell phones and even AI? Education makes young people prepared for their future jobs. Education makes people gain a lot of skills like brainstorming, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and collaboration. Education teaches you working with others, tackling challenges, expressing ideas clearly, analyzing and solving problems. Education provides a lot of information to people. This information can help people in the universities, work, schools and even in the elections. Education can provide information about the candidates and their data. Having a lot of information is actually ideal. It can make you clever and intelligent.
If there was no education, we would be living in an illiterate environment with no technology and internet. Imagine that you are living in a society that has no education. It will be like living in the stone age. There will be no creativity furthermore There will be nothing!
To conclude education is very significant in our life. Education is the one which told us about the climate support, health care and the emergency aid.
What do you think? What would be your felling if there was no education?
i would choose healthcare because you would not run those activities without like education,climate support,emergency aid when you are under the weather that would be possible you would be able to do so healthcare will be my first thing to and then others will just follow , healthcare is better than everything else in this live in my opion
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I think we need healthcare to live our daily life. Because being healthy is one of the most important thing to human beings. it is very useful to everyone,so we have to try to live healthy especially in nigeria we need more nurses and doctors and any one who can help to think and have a solution to the problem to bring back peace and harmoy.
I think healthcare because if people are not healthy , they will not be able to go to school, teachers will not be able to teach well and the students will not understand what the teacher is teaching and you know a healthy population is the foundation of all inventions, and students really want to learn what the teacher is teaching. For example, a teacher in a school is having malaria and the teacher can't teach because the teacher has malaria, maybe the owner of the school insist that the teacher teaches, a good job will not be done that day. When children are healthy, attendance in school increases, even adults won't have the strength to go out to work and fend for themselves.
It also in a way assist the government, when people have good health conditions, they can work and become less dependent on the government thereby reducing the how much the government have to spend on dependent citizens.
I would choose education as that's the most important thing in life. Learning can bring our lives together or we wouldn't have amazing people who teach us care for us and give us our needs. As if you don't get educated you will never be able to qualify to help other people who are less fortunate you who go through child labour dreaming of being a doctor or a teacher but none of that will ever come true without education. Doors will close without education . I agree with spectacular moon as nothing can just pop up like money a family a house a job it all includes education it is at the heart of everything. It inspires people to create new things and new opportunities.
Overall education helps countries stay strong and civilised staying strong with knowledge helping to live out dreams they thought would never be possible
My opinion is education because it would’ve been really hard for people to communicate and interact with each other. If people didn’t go to school they would probably not be able to talk in the correct pronunciation. I know that health care can be really important but at school you might even learn stuff like that, like when we even do are topical talk lesson. That why I chose education.
i think it is healthcare because people should have help in their lives ...
emergency aid because people will suffer and be sad without it, and t is very serious
In my opinion, Education is key to solving all of our problems
I think healthcare because we need to take care for sick people
I chose Emergency aid because i think it is good to help people who need it.
I'm not sure but I'll chose healthcare and education :)
I chose health care because i think everyone should get a chance to have good health and it is good to help people in need
emergency aid so more people are safe and so they feel nice
I think healthcare is the most needed to everyone because we need to be healthy to live our daily lives ,we also need to be healthy because we need to reproduce more humans and you need to have a good body to do that. It is apart of our whole lives and we can’t do education,emergency aid or climate support without being Healthy enough.
Education and Health Care because for education everyone can become smart and Heath care because you need to take care of your body and if you don't you won't be healthy
Education because young pupils need education to understand life and it leads up to healthcare because doctors are trained and it leads up to climate change because we all can learn to help each others and it leads up to emergency aid because we can learn to help others in need so think of it like a tree education is the main root from the tree so education leads up to everything like a river leads up to the sea.
I pick climate support because if we don't look after are planet then there will be no live
I think emergency aid, because many more people will die more because of cancer then climate change however climate change could affect people the in future and the world that we know and love will be in water and ruined.
I chose the healthcare they need money to help people and to protected
I think we should all fund education because some of us don't even have any and some people in the world aren't very bright. Emergency aid is important too but i think if people die then people die. If they were to be healed it would take a lot of time and people have to pay money and without money we wouldn't have any education and with education we can learn to be smart and then we would be able to have: medical aid, healthcare and climate support because if we were smart enough we would be able to solve the climate and maybe even world hunger!
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I agree because... I WANT TO HELP THEM WHO ARE HOMELES AND SHLTER THEM WHO NEED HEP I WOULD EVEN PUT THEM FIRST ..
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if I could only fund one I would chose emergency aid, I chose this because I think natural disasters are getting worse and worse and we need to increase the survival rate of these devastating disasters these and thes esafety measures can help save millions of lives
I think emergency aid because what if people die ` even though they are sick not just that it can save lives or can be something Dangerous those problems can be fixed sometime
I think healthcare because you need to have a good health condition to do well in your education. Another reason for this, is that the climate support, in my opinion, is that it is only once in a while; there are also no MAJOR weather to destroy things. (In my opinion).
I chose those 3 because in about 1000 years climate change will affect people more than emergency aid . However I think emergency aid because right now people in Ukraine , Iran , Israel etc are suffering because of it . Finally , I think healthcare because diseases like cancer and this new one spreading can deeply affect people and can cause death , if we don't act now it will deeply damage the world in the future .
I chose 3 things because they are all important. Climate change because if we don't stop climate change the world will flood. Emergency care because people around the world need to be immediately cared for because of wars and natural disasters. Healthcare because we need lots of healthcare.
If I had to choose an area to fund, Emergency AID would be first on my list. It helps deal with emergencies, disasters, war, famine, and disease. In situations like this, people cannot wait for long-term solutions; they need immediate aid to save their lives and get food, shelter, clean water,They would need immediate AID to save their lives, get food, shelter, clean water and healthcare. Without emergency AID, people would likely not survive long enough to possibly benefit from other AID areas such as education, health and climate change support.
The areas of education and healthcare are deeply significant, but these are generally infrastructures that the majority of countries have in some form. Such a system can continue to be developed, but generally, these have not been designed to deal with emergency requirements immediately in response to a crisis. Emergency AIDS fills these significant gaps when the existing structure collapses.
Support in climate is very significant in ensuring international stability, though its impact are preventive. Years may be required before climate change projects yield results. Sometimes, these projects may not even directly adrress human suffering. Resources should be prioritised in cases where they can be saved.
Also, emergency AID has an advantage of strenghtening diplomatic relations between different countries. There is a possibility of strengthening diplomatic relations when a country lends a hand to other nations that are in most trying times. This is especially applicable to the affected population.
If you could only fund one, I would choose Emergency Aid. People may disagree with me because they need education . But to be honest , if you were dead then you wouldnt even have any education! But if you chose Aid, you would be able to have education after the war and you will have aid to surely be secure. So that is what I think.
I think healthcare would come 1 st no doubt because it is the most important thing in our lives. It comes first because we can’t do anything else other than stay in bed if your ill
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I think health care because health is so important to everyone and we want to live a safe , happy and healthier life I think that there should be more doctors and nurses to help out
if i could fund one i would pick emergency aid because if someone got hurt then they would get better medical care so they can heal better and quicker so injured people wouldn`t feel worser so it doesnt hurt alot and they could heal better and not feel alot of pain.
medical care is a important thing so every country should have it so not alot of people who suffered minor injuries would get good care same goes with serious injuries this would reduce the amount of infections in the injured area and also reduce the amount of bad injuries this is why i would pick emergency aid bye hope you have a good day bye
I would chose education because education covers everything, healthcare is very important but doctors and nurses need to learn and that is from education.For first aid you need to be train which is called education. In school you probably learn about climate change so that is why I think education is mos5 important and if I can I will give money to that.
Education because it’s like ‘a superhero’. And it’s also the seed of the tree because doctors use education to get smart which leads us to healthcare and we can learn about climate change through education and we can then support it and education leads us to learning about emergency aid and how we can learn about it so as I said education is like a seed because healthcare and emergency aid and climate support are like the roots which make a lovely tree.
I'd choose education, as most countries ignore funding education or fund it with strict limits. One example is Nigeria. They move more focus to funding sports like football and the Olympics and forget what the priority should be. Another example is my home country, Egypt. They spent more money funding the Grand Egyptian museum that just recently or the new capital that is next to Cairo. This is a huge opportunity they are ignoring, and they are just making an illusion by making 30 projects that supposedly fund education, while also ignoring RSV which should be the second largest priority.
If there was enough funding or awareness about what educated people can do for their country, most kids will have the chance to go to school, earn a living, and go to a good university.
Other people say we need healthcare to survive. I partly agree. While healthcare could help us humans survive, we need education to find the doctors and nurses that encourage the country to fund healthcare and they are one of the sole supporters of it
People who say a sick child can't learn aren't correct because they can take Zoom meetings like Germany did in the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so countries who have already finished the education jump can provide Emergency Aid to countries who need it.
As for everything else, I see that a country as a whole should start improving itself first, stop all conflict inside it, and try to improve. Then we can focus on other countries or the whole world.
As for the future, we need to fix the priorities. We will have world-class museums but nobody to lead the country
I think that this is a multi-faceted question and that all of them are very important. Emergency aid and healthcare both are vital for human survival and they do not in the UK receive enough government funding as well as them needing more support. However, climate support is also equally needing financial support and other types of support because many people ignore climate change and the Earth is very unstable. Here is a link for data on global challenges to do with the environment and other World Issues:
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/state-of-the-planet/when-will-the-rainforests-be-gone
I also believe that education is important so that people can communicate with each other, understand the world around them and come up with their own new ideas to help fight climate change as well as finding out other ways to help us keep our way of life sustainable.
I would fund education.We need too be educated to know about the world because if we didn't, nobody would get a job (that wouldn't even be possible).Also learning helps us grow, when we know more things that means we can observe and take in things that are similar.If we got educated you would learn new things which can help you in life with whatever job you want to do when you are older, for instance a doctor could help with healthcare, but if there was no education, they wouldn't know anything about doctors.That would also go the same with climate support and emergency aid.
Altogether I think education should come first and be funded if I only had the choice to choose one.
I think healthcare comes first because you can’t do anything if you are sick other than stay in bed . Education is also a key part in our lives to get jobs and lots of other things
If I had to choose one and fund one I would choose climate support the reason I chose this is because people who are older and have not looked after our planet properly, are now leaving a part of the destroyed planet to us. But some people don’t even realise what they are doing just by turning a light on which shows how bad things are getting.NOT VERY MANY and I MEAN NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE understand what we are doing to protect this planet and how many sacrifices we are making to not use electricity and green house gases.
i have chosen healthcare as i think it is the best for our society as we will all need to be healthy. We all need to be healthy to live ,therefore i think healthcare is the best option.
Im not sure because we use money for lots of different reasons and it could benefit lots of different people and communities.
100% healthcare because if a country couldn't heal on their own then they'd evolve much slower than everyone else. not only that but they can't defend themselves as effectively.
I chose healthcare reasons because the body is invaluable and irreplaceable vehicle essential for life. It is very important without it i do not think we can do anything in life and when the body is not stable one can not do any activities in that state because most often it worsens the condition. An activities can only be done well when the body is in good shape.
So that is my opinion thank you.
i would fund to health care as in order for a kid to go to school they will need to be un sick or hurt and i order for imedeate aid you will need better health care so that the aid is better and helps climate support is a tricky one becaus so many of us know we can change and some do but theres some people who refuese to help us so we need to make the world a safer place because even though most people wont make a change we can so we must do are bestto fix it because you cant train for it like you can for health care and education so we must do are best as the probaly 25% of us who will and can make a diffrence in are world we can battle the offer 75% because even though 85% of adults smoke we will make a diffrence by stoping them because all of us can do some thing to help
If I could fund only one of these options, I would strongly select Emergency aid because I think Humanity is the first thing we should see, right? Also, emergency aid is the base of every aid, like education and healthcare without emergency aid we can't even implement long term education at all. To understand me correctly think of a country where disaster strike and people are in hunger and some of them are injured In that moment would you give them education or emergency services? Think about the children right now they are in a disaster zone so how could they possibly go to school? Emergency aid provides food, shelter and water if these basic needs are met People can live Happily and go to school our work right? The country can develop its infrastructure only when it's citizens are safe. I want to tell you that emergency aid is the urgent care provided to the people if they have help in their own country they don't have to became refugees and lose their destiny and Also, I have read real stories about Children's who wear rescued by emergency aid and where able to go to school for the first time. I know education, Healthcare and climate support or also important but without people we can't implement the emergency aid is something be provide immediately which saves many lives and after being safe people can develop education or participate in climate support programs after a disaster has been solved. And Thank You! for reading.
All of them are important things to fund, but if I could choose only one, I would choose climate support. In Egypt, many people smoke cigarettes, which is very bad for our chests. It also hurts me so much that sometimes I can barely breathe!!!
As I mentioned, because so many people smoke , there is also the problem of houses and schools being near factories. This creates bad smells in the air. It makes you feel like you have to choose between breathing those smells or holding your nose until they go away.
But what is the main reason I chose climate support?? I think if we help the environment, we would be able to decrease the number of people who need healthcare. When someone smokes and that air gets into our lungs, it is like we are smoking too.
Although the 4 topics are really important, I choose healthcare because really how would life be if people were sick everywhere. Also, if there are no doctors who would heal the kids, us who will form the future ahead. Imagine no doctors and people were sick who would be there to help them get better. Healthcare needs the funding because it is not only about the doctors, its about the availability of all components including proper hospitals, different medicine for different health problems, and even the tools used to help patients. A healthy society would be the most productive and efficient.
I chose climate support because what's the point if you do all of that stuff when your going to die of climate and where would that get you?
I think that healthcare should come first because we need to make sure that everyone is okay and they do not have cuts or injuries on themselves. i feel that everyone should keep well and do the thing that makes them happy.
I think it would be helpful to have emergency aid because in the past when covid was around we had to go and have our own bubbles (separation) in each class for two years and that slowed down our education so we didn't learn as much as other people and if we had better aid we could have learnt more.
if we didn't have emergency aid then we would suffer,
if we suffer then we potentially die,
if we potentially die then the world will be empty (humans)
if the world was empty of humans then only the animals are left,
if only the animals are there then if they catch a serious disease who are going to look after them,
if no one looks after them then they will die,
if they die all that's left is the world...
I think health care because it is needed in some parts of the world.
Some parts of the world all ready have most other things.
Health care is one of the most needed things in the world, people need health care to get better from sicknesses and to be taken care of.
Health care is so important that it comes before every thing except for your family and friends
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i chose aid because i think it's important to help people in need :)