Group Description

Goals
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 preventable diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development


The Millennium Development goals are a set of time-bound targets for drastically reducing extreme poverty around the world, and for substantial improvements in health and education. At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, one hundred and eighty-nine countries, the largest gathering of heads of state ever, endorsed the Goals and committed themselves to their achievement by 2015. Since that time, organizations across the globe have convened and collaborated on campaigns to raise awareness of the critical importance of the Goals, and to compel world leaders to fulfill their promises of additional quality funding, trade reform and debt cancellation to achieve the Goals.

Appropriate to the pool are both images that represent goal success or failure, images that challenge, images that honor.

Please consider a personal challenge: contribute 0.7% (seven tenths of one percent) of your household income, whether your country is participating or not, above your normal giving, to address these global goals.

one.org

interaction.org/mdg

millenniumcampaign.org

www.er-d.org/mdg/

clintonglobalinitiative.org

makepovertyhistory.org

Flickr's own CARF