The Millennium Development Goals

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The Millennium Development Goals
The alleviation of material suffering in the
world and the spiritual renewal of the church go
hand in hand. - The Rev. Dr. Sabina Alkire
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This is our world
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This is our world
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If the world were 10 people
5 would be men. 5 would be women.
2 would be white. 8 would be non-white.
2 would have a good home to live in. 8 would not.
3 would be able to read. 7 would not.
7 would have safe water to drink. 3 would have
no water or water that made them sick
5 would be malnourished. 5 would get enough to
eat each day.
7 would have electricity. 3 would not. But of
the 7 that did, most would use it only for light
at night.
1 would have internet access. 9 would not
6 would have improved sanitation (toilets, trash
services), 4 would not
2 would control 86 percent of the worlds wealth.
6 would live on less than 2 a day
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What Are The MDGs?
-Eight goals
-Each goal has measurable targets
-Agreed to by 189 countries at the Millennium
Summit in 2000
-A plan to address the deepest material
brokenness in the world today.
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A snapshot of the world in 2008
More than 1 billion people are living on less
than US1 a day
A child under 5 dies every three seconds of
preventable, treatable causes nearly 30,000 a
day.
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A snapshot of the world in 2008
500,000 women a year die from complications from
childbirth and pregnancy (1 in 16 in
sub-Saharan Africa)
115 million school-aged children arent able to
be in school.
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A snapshot of the world in 2008
In the world as a whole, women comprise 51
percent of the population, do 66 percent of the
work, receive 10 percent of the income and own
less than one percent of the property
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The MDGs Goal 1

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
  proportion of people whose income is less than 1
  a day
• Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
  proportion of people who suffer from hunger

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The MDGs Goal 2

• Achieve universal primary education
• Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children
  everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to
  complete a full course of primary schooling

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The MDGs Goal 3

• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary
  and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and
  in all levels of education no later than 2015

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The MDGs Goal 4

• Reduce child mortality
• Target 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and
  2015, the under-five mortality rate

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The MDGs Goal 5

• Improve maternal health
• Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990
  and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

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The MDGs Goal 6

• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to
  reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to
  reverse the incidence of malaria and other major
  diseases

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The MDGs Goal 7

• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable
  development into country policies and programs
  and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of
  people without sustainable access to safe
  drinking water and basic sanitation
• Target 11. Have achieved by 2020 a significant
  improvement in the lives of at least 100 million
  slum dwellers

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The MDGs Goal 8

• Develop a global partnership for sustainable
  development
• Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based,
  predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and
  financial system
• Target 13. Address the special needs of the Least
  Developed Countries
• Target 14. Address the special needs of
  landlocked developing countries and small island
  developing
• Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt
  problems of developing countries.
• Target 16. In cooperation with developing
  countries, develop and implement strategies for
  decent and productive work for youth
• Target 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical
  companies, provide access to affordable essential
  drugs in developing countries
• Target 18. In cooperation with the private
  sector, make available the benefits of new
  technologies.

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Why should we care about the MDGs?

• Because Christians have always cared about the
  MDGs even before there were the MDGs.

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Why should we care about the MDGs?

• Because the world is on fire, and its all of our
  problem.

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Why should we care about the MDGs?

• Because in the MDGs, Christ is drawing us
  together. Because the MDGs are about global
  reconciliation.

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Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
Episcopalians connecting collaborating to
follow Christ, end poverty, and heal a broken
world. www.E4GR.org