We discussed what can be done, by ourselves, by international organizations and by governments and people. Another topic was population, and interestingly in my group it was presented by a Chinese girl. China is well known to have a one child per family policy. In China's situation, she believed it was. We decided that choice is an important factor in determining family size, but this means that people need to know what options are open to them.
Education is the key to development, in many cases.
Poverty is a big problem in many parts of Africa, since it leads to disease and environmental problems, powerlessness and strife. It is important to eliminate poverty to allow development to take place. Julie from Canada had an interesting idea about how to achieve this. For example, scrap military service and replace with humanitarian service, for men and women. Or educate children so that they are aware of world issues and appoint a solidarity educator in each school, making a curse in humanitarian issues a compulsory part of the curriculum.