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Millennium Development Goals
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| What One Can Do... Educate Yourself: What are the Millennium Development Goals? "...We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected." - The Millennium Declaration The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals agreed to in 2000 by 189 heads of state and government -- including the United States -- from around the world that address the deepest material brokenness in the world today. Poverty the likes of which we just don't see within the United States. Poverty like: *1.2 billion people living on less than $1 a day. *110 million children who aren't allowed even a full course of primary education *Half a million women a year dying of complications from childbirth and pregnancy. *A child under 5 dying every three seconds from preventable, treatable causes *8,000 people (more than died in the September 11 attacks) dying each day of HIV/AIDS and much, much more. What are the MDGs? Click on each goal for more specific information about the goal and What One Can Do to make it happen. 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger . 2. Achieve universal primary education. 3. Promote gender equality and empower women. 4. Reduce child mortality. 5. Improve maternal health. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Create a global partnership for development with targets for aid, trade and debt relief. For much more information about the MDGs, be sure and visit these sites: *The U.S. Millennium Campaign *The UN Development Programme's MDG pages *The World Bank's MDG site (This information was copied from the Episcopal Church website: http://www.e4gr.org/mdgs/fast_facts.html) |
