In Religion we are doing projects on MDG's. The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000.
These eight Goals include
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. Develop a Global partnership for development.
- Roughly 2/3 of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has HIV. One goal is to cut the growth of HIV by 50%.
- The percent of underweight children in developing countries dropped from 28% in 1990 to 17% in 2011.
- Worldwide,1.2 billion earn less than $1.25 a day. The UN hopes to end poverty by cutting this number in half.
- 800 million people are undernourished and 153 million children are underweight.
- Poverty disproportionately affects women, who represent 70 percent of the world’s poor and the current financial crisis is likely to affect women particularly severely. According to estimates, of the 771 million illiterate adults worldwide, 64 percent are women
- Of the 680 million children of primary school age, 115 million are still not in school — 97% of them in developing countries
- Every year, more than 10 million children die of preventable causes – 30, 000 per day.
These MDG's give children in some of the poorest and isolated communities in the world hope for a better future, we can make our generation be the generation that finally ends poverty.
Thank you for reading,
love Caroline x
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