Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all UN member states agreed to in 2002, when they signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration.The following eight goals are designed to cut poverty in half, compared to a 1990 baseline, by year 2015.  Achieving these objectives is a very important milestone on the path towards ending extreme poverty by 2025.  Extreme poverty being when a household is chronically hungry, unable to access health care, lacks safe drinking water and sanitation, cannot afford education for some or all of their children, perhaps lacks rudimentary shelter ( roof and walls that keep rain out and a chimney to remove smoke from the cooking stove ) and basic articles of clothing like shoes.  In other words, when basic needs are not met.

1. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
2. Achieving universal primary education,
3. Promoting gender equality and empowering women,
4. Reducing child mortality rates,
5. Improving maternal health,
6. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases,
7. Ensuring environmental sustainability, and
8. Developing a global partnership for development.