The  United  Nations  Millennium  

Development  Goals  (MDGs)  for  2015  

           

 

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

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Let’s Brainstorm!

How can we help the world to be a better a place?

Goals for 2015:

The MDGs: GOAL 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

GOAL 2: Achieve universal primary education

GOAL 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

GOAL 4: Reduce child mortality

GOAL 5: Improve maternal and health

GOAL 6: Fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

GOAL 7: Ensure environmental sustainability (Example-WATER)

GOAL 8: Develop a global partnership for development

MDG Explanations are:

The world should work together to help poor countries.

All children should go to elementary school.

Men and women should be equal. Women need more power.

Fewer babies should die.

Mothers should be healthy.

Fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

The environment should be healthy.

Everyone should have some money and enough food.

The United Nations sets an agenda to help countries improve themselves in these areas.

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In September 2000, 189 government leaders from around the world met at a meeting of the United Nations (UN). The leaders decided they wanted to do something to make the world a better place and they agreed to work to help world poverty by the year 2015. They chose 8 goals that every country would work together to achieve. These are called the ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs). Some companies like Pepsi Cola are working with international development organizations working to help people in need. It funds projects in countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Local people run the projects, which target the Millennium Development Goals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MATCH THE GOALS WITH PEPSI’s PROJECTS:

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THE MDGs:

1.The world should work together to help poor countries.

2. All children should go to elementary school.

3. Men and women should be equal. Women need more power.

4. Fewer babies should die.

5. Mothers should be healthy.

6. Fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

7. The environment should be healthy.

8. Everyone should have some money and enough food.

SOME OF PEPSI’s PROJECTS:

A. Projects to teach women about their human rights.

B. Projects that train health workers, nurses and doctors, so that they can give better health care to mothers.

C. Pepsi gives food and seeds to hundreds of thousands of people who are hungry and don’t have food in southern Africa.

D. Projects to keep children in school, including providing daily school snacks such as Quaker Milk Chillers and low fat Cheetos.

E. Helping communities to educate people about fighting diseases like AIDS and malaria.

F. Helping communities to build tanks and wells to store clean water for use.

G. Pepsi is working to help governments to trade fairly with poorer countries and to cancel debts they owe to richer countries

H. Supporting community health care programs in far-away areas.

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Let’s discuss some problems around the world!

Find a partner and talk! Use the poverty cycle as a guide!

² 800 million people go hungry every day. ² 20% of the world’s population lives on $1 a day. ² 20% of people in the world can’t get clean water. ² 113 million children don’t go to school. ² Around the world there are more than 800 million adults

who can’t read or write.

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With your partner, think of all the problems in the world today, and write some here:

REDUCE POVERTY AND SAVE THE WORLD!

Ø The MDGs should help reduce poverty and save the world.

SOME DEFINITIONS:

DIVIDE THE LIST INTO 2 GROUPS

AN EMERGENCY is a situation that you need to deal with now.

Emergency relief is aid to help save people’s lives. This is short term.

DEVELOPMENT is about improving people’s lives over a longer time. This is long term.

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THINGS THAT PEOPLE NEED NOW (SHORT TERM) AND THINGS THAT PEOPLE NEED IN THE FUTURE (LONG TERM):

Short term- Group 1 Long term-Group 2

Which MDG is most important and why?

COUNTRY MDG WHY?

TENTS, FIRST AID KITS, FOOD, CLEAN WATER, BLANKETS, SEEDS, MATERIAL FOR NEW HOUSES, TOOLS, CUPS AND PANS, SCHOOLS FOR EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE  

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Vocabulary  List  

adult   大人

reduce   減らす

caretaker   管理人

poverty   貧困

link  between  A  and  B   Aと Bとのつながり

owe   （人などに借金などの）借りがある

cancel   キャンセルする

debt   借金

suffer   苦しむ

disease   病気

trained   訓練を受けた  

improve   改善する

achieve   達成する

human  rights   人権

guide   案内

waste  disposal   ゴミ処理