Can the World Really Become Better by 2030? The Answer Might Surprise You.
- Rishi Banshiwal
- Oct 8, 2017
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 7, 2025

Do you believe the world will be a better place next year?In the next decade?
Can we realistically end hunger, achieve gender equality, ensure quality education, and reverse climate change — all within 15 years?
If your instinct says no, you’re not alone.Every day, the news shows us conflict, disasters, inequality and division. It often feels like the world is moving backwards, not forwards.
But here’s the truth that most people forget:
Humanity has done the impossible before. We can do it again.
The Global Goals: A Blueprint for a Better World
On 25 September 2015, 193 world leaders came together at the United Nations to launch the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — a bold blueprint to:
End extreme poverty
Fight inequality and injustice
Protect our planet
Create a world that works for everyone by 2030
It sounds ambitious — almost too ambitious.But ambition is nothing new to humanity.
Why You Should Believe Change Is Possible
Back in 2001, the UN created the Millennium Development Goals. Their most difficult target was this:
Halve global poverty between 1990 and 2015.
The world needed to reduce extreme poverty from 36% to 18% by 2015.
Did we hit the target?
No. We exceeded it.
By 2015, global poverty fell to 12%.
Against all odds, humanity proved what is possible when we unite behind a shared purpose.
If we achieved it once, why not again?
The Truth: The Power to Change the World Is Already Inside Us
Human beings are the most creative, resourceful and adaptable species on Earth.Our minds are full of ideas.Our hands build solutions.Our hearts ignite movements.
We’ve changed the world many times in history — through innovation, leadership, courage and collective action.
We can do it again.
But this time, the journey starts from the inside out.
Change Begins with YOU — Then Expands to the World
You don’t need a title, a big bank account or political power to change the world. You already carry the most important resources:
Your skills
Your knowledge
Your compassion
Your influence
Your creativity
Your time
Here’s how simple it actually is:
Use your education to teach someone who never had access to it.
Help a family in your neighbourhood understand health, sanitation or hygiene.
Support someone facing injustice by helping them access information or resources.
Donate clothes, books or essentials to underprivileged communities.
Use your profession — whether engineering, law, medicine, business, science or arts — to solve real problems.
When each of us contributes a little, the world transforms a lot.
This is how we move towards achieving the Global Goals — not through giant leaps, but through millions of small, consistent actions.
Alone We Go Fast, But Together We Go Far
Individual action matters.But collective action changes history.
If we join hands — across cities, communities, professions and countries — we can accelerate progress faster than ever before. Just like in 2015, we may not only achieve the targets…we might surpass them.
That’s the power of unity.
How Organisations Like Reaching Sky Foundation Make This Possible
Around the world, thousands of NGOs and volunteer groups are working tirelessly to turn the SDGs into reality.
Reaching Sky Foundation, based in New Delhi and founded in 2015, is one of them.Focused on SDG 4: Quality Education, RSF empowers young people with:
Social values
Leadership skills
Life skills
Access to quality learning opportunities
When you volunteer with such organisations, your impact multiplies. You contribute to a structured, scalable mission that touches thousands of lives.
And in return, you experience the joy of giving — the kind of joy nothing else can match.
The Truth About Changing the World
You don’t have to wait for governments. You don’t have to wait for NGOs. You don’t have to wait for the world to get better.
You are the starting point.Your actions, your voice, your skills — they matter more than you realise.
The world doesn’t change because a few people do big things. It changes because millions do small things with big intention.
So ask yourself:What can you start today?
Because the world needs dreamers.But even more, it needs doers.
**YOU ARE AWESOME. OWN THAT TRUTH.
AND USE IT TO CHANGE THE WORLD.**




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