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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals

No Excuse: 2015What can you do in your The 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 diseases, 7. Ensure environmental sustainability, 8. Develop a global partnership for developmentlocal and global community to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? Which goal are you focusing on?


In 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 nations pledged to end the conditions of poverty that people all over the world face by the year 2015.

 

How are we doing so far?
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We are the first generation that can get rid of poverty. What can you do? What do you think is needed in order for this to happen? What impact do you think achieving these goals will have on your local and global community?

 

 

What Would Achieving the MDGs Mean?

Students at WORSHIP CENTER ORPHANAGE PrimaryMeet the students at the Worship Centre Orphanage Primary School Nkokonjeru in Kampala, Uganda... What would achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals mean to them?

 

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Bringing the MDGs to life!

Exploring the Millennium Development Goals with Process Theatre!

Watch these performances from all over the world as Two giant puppets performing a playthey explore the MDGs! Create your own and submit it!

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