There’s been a lot of talk about the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) at TILE recently – have you heard about them yet? Spearheaded by the United Nations, the MDG consist of eight important and ambitious objectives for ending extreme poverty in developing nations around the world by the year 2015. These are:
- End Poverty and Hunger
- Provide Universal Education
- Gender Equality
- Child Health
- Maternal Health
- Combat HIV/AIDS
- Environmental Sustainability
- Global Partnership
Three of our TILE Cause organizations are working to make these goals a reality:
- Millennium Promise‘s entire mission and programmatic work is based around accomplishing the MDG. The Millennium Villages project is their flagship initiative.
- charity: water has pledged to educate 5 million people about water issues in the next six years.
- Acción provides the world’s poor with financial tools they wouldn’t otherwise have access to, so they can literally work their way out of poverty.
Despite having distinct missions, leadership, and programmatic work, these organizations are all working in tandem to support the larger mission of the MDG.
There are MDG-related events happening all over the world over the next year. The most recent one took place on November 27th and 28th, when the Namibian Presidential Elections were held. This was the fourth general election since independence and the fifth democratic election Namibia has seen.
Stay tuned for more updates on MDG events!
And don’t forget, SPEND.GROW.GIVE. members can always check out Millennium Promise, charity: water, and Accion’s Give pages to learn more about how to support their work!
- Gita