The Millennium Development Goals …and what we can do

The Millennium Developme

nt Goals

…and what we can do

In September of 2000the United

Nations and its member statespledged to

accomplish a set of 8 goalsto reduce human

suffering across the globe

by 2015

Some facts about

Human Suffering

in 2007

More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day

Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation

Every year, 6 million children die from malnutrition before their 5th birthday

Picture from worldrevolution.org

More than a billion people lack access to clean water

and basic sanitation

Photo from www.charityis.org

5 million people - mostly children - die each year from water-borne

diseases

Every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria

Photo from www.howstuffworks.com

HIV/AIDS kills 6,000 people a day

while infecting 8,200 more

Photo from: UNAIDS/ G Pirozzi www.unaids.org

Deforestation, overgrazing, drought andpoor farming practices

threaten to make the land unlivablePhoto from www.greenpeace.org

high trade barriers prevent exports from gaining access to world markets

while local governments drown in unsustainable debt

Photo from: AFP/Getty Images/ Issouf Sanogo

Civil war and political unrest displace millions

Photo from www.darfurcentre.ch

the way we generate electricity…

Meanwhile…

… and the way we travel…

… have implications far beyond our borders…Photo from NASA

In all, more than 1.2 billion people are living in extreme

poverty

famine, drought, disease and war

In 2007

will combine to create unimaginable human

suffering

… and it doesn’t have to be that way

The Millennium Development Goals

represent a plan for ending extreme poverty

Feeding the hungry

Clean water for

all

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Healing the sick

Improving maternal health

Reducing child mortality

School for every child

Empowering women

Global Partnersh

ipsbetween:

Governments

Businesses

Churches

Individuals

So what should I do?

DWYD + 1

DO

WHAT

YOU

DO

1THING MORE

You can give your money

“A little bit goes a long way”

You can contact your elected

representatives

You can vote

Photo by James Wickham

You can educate othersPhoto: Global Call to Action against Poverty

whiteband.org

You can make smart choices about

what you buyPhoto by Darren131 via flourish.org/blog

You can pray

Truly, I tell you, as you

did it for the least of

(my brothers)

you did it for me.

Matthew

25:37-40

DWYD + 1 = ONE

Want to learn more?

For resources and information about What One Person, Congregation and

Diocese Can Do, go to

www.E4GR.org

“The Millennium Development Goals

…and what we can do”

was adapted from materials

published by

Episcopalians For Global Reconciliation

www.e4gr.org

Additional images courtesy of

Microsoft Office Media Content CD 2002

Created by

Eric Hopkins

St. George’s Church

York Harbor, ME USA

2007