aiming to halve world poverty by the year 2015. In 2000, the millennium year, 189 United Nations member states, including Australia, gathered together aiming to halve world poverty by the year 2015. So our world leaders came up with a plan; a blueprint for a better world. The plan was made up of 8 life-changing goals that would bring about freedom from poverty for some of the world's poorest people; to create a world where poverty was history. These goals became the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Goal 1
live in extreme poverty 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty
Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day Photo: Cindy Godden
1 billion people hunger suffer from
Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger Photo: Cindy Godden
Goal 2
69 million children are denied the right to an education
Ensure that by 2015, all children will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Photo: Maya Haviland
Goal 3
More girls miss out on school than boys
Ensure girls have the same access to schooling as boys Photo: Cindy Godden
70% of the world’s poor are women
Equality for women in employment Photo:Cristiana Ximenes Belo
Goal 4
8.1 million children will die before their 5th birthday
Reduce by two thirds the under-five mortality rate Photo: Phillip Gibbs
Goal 5
from childbirth or pregnancy related causes 40 women die every hour from childbirth or pregnancy related causes
Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio Photo: Phillip Gibbs
Goal 6
were infected with HIV in 2008 2.7 million people were infected with HIV in 2008
Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV by 2015 Photo: Sean Sprague
A person dies of malaria every 30 seconds
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases such as tuberculosis Photo: Sean Sprague
Goal 7
870 million people don’t have access to clean drinking water
2.6 billion people don’t have access to basic sanitation (such as a pit toilet)
Halve the proportion of people without access to improved water and sanitation facilities Photo: Cindy Godden
Deforestation continues 13 million hectares per year at an alarming rate - 13 million hectares per year (roughly the land area of Bangladesh)
Reverse the loss of biodiversity and environmental resources Photo: C. Lee
828 million people live in a slum
Achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020
Goal 8
Develop an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Photo: Cindy Godden
Reduce debt burden
0.7% How much of Australia’s Gross National Income is needed to help achieve the MDGs? 0.7% That’s only 70c out of every $100
Some people will say we can’t afford to do it… I think we can’t afford not to do it. Bono
Together we can MAKE HISTORY
Photo: Cindy Godden
Together we can
Photo: Cindy Godden
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