Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hungry

Reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 per day by half Reduce the number of people who live in hunger by half Guarantee stable employment What do we want to achieve?

What have we already achieved? The proportion of people living on less that $1.25 per day has been reduced by 600 million Between 1990 and 2008, the poverty rate has dropped from 47% to 24%

In China, extreme poverty dropped from 60% in 1990 to 16% in 2005 and 12% in 2010 In Madagascar, extreme poverty dropped from 76.3% in 2001 to 67.8% in 2005 before rising to 81.3% in 2010 In Nicaragua, extreme hunger dropped from 55.1% in 1991 to 47.7% in 2005 and 21.5% in 2010 In Comoros, extreme hunger rose from 43.5% in 1991 to 58.1% in 2005 and 67.8 in 2010

What Challenges Remain? 1.2 billion people still live on less that $1.25 a day There are still 850 million people living in hunger in the world

What has been done? Wall Against Hunger Donate money to feature a picture on the wall

Millennium Villages Project Addresses the root causes of extreme poverty, taking a holistic, community-led approach to sustainable development Slogan ‘In order to make lasting change in any one sphere of development, we must improve them all.’

An education and advocacy organisation working to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action to see an end to extreme poverty