Goal 4: Quality Education – The Case of the Borgen Project

As of 2020, approximately 258 million children and teenagers did not receive a proper education or even received no education at all (Rogers & Sabarwal, 2020). In response to this issue, UNESCO is developing educational resources seeking to ensure that everyone has access to effective education throughout the world (Saini et al., 2022). To this end, SDG 4 focuses on providing quality education to promote lifelong learning for children and adults by 2030. For this to be possible, however, both governments and companies in the private sector need to become involved and do what they can to promote high-quality education (Saini et al., 2022). One positive example of a company engaging in SDGs is the Borgen Project, which is a nonprofit organisation focused on preventing and addressing poverty and hunger (Borgen Project, n.d.). The Borgen Project’s strategy centres on long-term results aimed at achieving a larger effect through governmental acts that are instituted in US foreign policy (Borgen Project, n.d.). The organisation operates by mobilising, advocating and spreading information. Currently, a total of 1813 US cities are committed to the Borgen Project as volunteers, which further emphasises the organisation’s success. The number of volunteers has also increased rapidly in recent years, and there is no indication that it will slow down (Borgen Project, n.d.).