1. Millennium Development Goals What can one person do?

2. Millennium Development Goals • Approved at General Convention 2006 • A “Call to Partnership” presented to the United Nations Summit by participants in Consultation of Religious Leaders on Global Poverty

3. First of 8 Millennium Develop Goals (MDG) • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • A person dies of hunger every 3.5 seconds • A billion people live on less than $1 a day

4. MDG Goal 2 • Achieve Universal Primary Education for Children • 100 million children are not in school • 70% of those children are girls

5. MDG 3 • Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women • Empowered women: • become leaders in their communities • die less often in childbirth • have healthier and better educated children

6. MDG 4 • Reduce Child Mortality Every 3 seconds a child under 5 dies Most can be prevented by: • Clean water • Sanitation • Improved nutrition • Medical treatment

7. MDG 5 • Improve Maternal Health • Half a million women die annually from complications of pregnancy and child birth • In some parts of world, women have a 50-50 chance of surviving a pregnancy

8. MDG 6 • Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Other Diseases • Needs are for • Health education • Proper sanitation • Access to clean water • Mosquito nets • Inexpensive medications

9. MDG 7 • Ensure Environmental Sustainability • Clean water and • Sanitation • Work together to save lives • Create productive societies

10. MDG 8 • Create a Global Partnership for Development • Fair trade systems • Increased international aid • Debt relief for developing countries

11. What are you called to give? • Give .7% of annual income to help meet these goals • Household income of $30,000 a year=$210 • Household income of $50,000 a year =$350 • Household income of $80,000 a year=$560

12. What are some examples? • Support Bob and Ellen Snow’s ministry in the DR • Provide scholarships through Colegio Kids • Support efforts of Fr. Daniel Kuot for people in the Sudan • Give to the Episcopal Relief and Development

13. Pray Daily to Meet MDGs • Pray daily to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 • Pray daily that you will be directed to find an organization that you support financially • Pray for the work of the Snows, Fr. Kuot and other work in the Sudan, and Colegio Kids

14. Support Local Efforts • Hope Center • Habitat for Humanity • Dean Fricke Food Pantry • Omaha Together One Community • Where can you work and give?

15. Educate Others • Read the MDG Brochure • Take an extra MDG Brochure home to share with a friend • Order MDG materials to share in your church • Have discussions in your family and church about MDG and what you can do

16. Nebraska Daughters of the King and MDG • Nebraska DOK Goals for 2006-2009 include • educate members of this diocese about the Millennium Development Goals

17. Additional information • Web site for MDG for prayer guides, books, activities, photos, stories, etc. • er-d.org/mdg