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THE UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALSN e w s l e t t e r
Goal 1: To Reduce
Poverty.
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Goal 2: To Educate Every
Child.
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Goal 3: To Provide Equal
Chances for Girls and
Page 4 Women.
Goal 4: To Reduce Child
Mortality.
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By. David Ma
Goal 5: To Improve
Maternal Health.
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Goal 6: To Fight
Infectious Diseases.
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Goal 7: To Ensure
Environmental
Page 7 Sustainability.
Goal 8: To Built a Global
Partnership for
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The United Nation’s
Millennium Development
Goals are set to help poor
people in developing
countries meet their basic
needs and help to make the
world a better place to live.
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Poverty
To reduce poverty is the first goal in the UN Millennium Development goals (MDG). What’s poverty? Poverty is people who don’t have enough money and basic needs such as clean water, food, clothes, medicines and proper houses. Today 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day. 850 million people would go hungry every night. The greatest numbers of poor people live in South Asia, but sub-Saharan Africa has the biggest percentage of poor people. One way to help is to reform international trade, so that developing countries can get fair prices for their goods. From 1990 to 2004 the number of people live in extreme poverty fell from nearly 33% to less than 20%.
TO REDUCE POVERTY
These are kids who lives in slum.
These are shacks in poor countries.
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TO EDUCATE EVERY CHILD
This is a school in Africa.
This is a boy who is studying.
This is a poor school in Africa.
Education poem
120 million kids are out of school.
How many people that is?
That’s more than the entire population of Mexico you fool.
40 million girls not going to school.
That not good.
All educated, shouldn’t they?
The good thing is
120 million kids fell
to 72 million kids.
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GENDER EQUALITY
Fast Facts about Gender Equality
Gender equality is the third Millennium Development
Goal. It’s about girls and women not have equal
chances as men. Below are some important facts
about it.
• Girls are more likely to drop out of school and to
get less education than boys because of
discrimination or household obligation.
• In 2004, world wide, only 66% of girls completed
their primary school education, compared with
76% of boys.
• Two-thirds of adult who can’t read are women.
• Men are really likely to get good jobs then
women.
• Women work two- thirds of the world’s working
hours, but they only earn one-tenth of the
world’s income.
This is a woman who is reading.
These girls are getting things.These are working women.
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TO REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY AND IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
A business letter to a medicine company’s manager
2094 Nagykovacsi ut
Nagykovacsi, Hungary
April 10, 2009
Mr. Harry Smith, Company Manager
Congers’ Medication Company
Box 157
New York, NY 10252
Dear Mr. Smith:
I’m a doctor from Ethiopia. I know your medicines have a good quality,
we don’t seem to be able to afford it, in other words they are too expensive.
Might you conceder lowering your price, so we can by it. I know it’s hard to
do so in this economic time, but you know world wide, more than ten million
children die before the age of five, and more than half a million women die
during pregnancy and childbirth each year. So we want to save these lives
by giving them medicines and vaccines, so they wouldn’t get diseases and
die.
I hope to hear the good news from you!
Sincerely,
Mickey Jones Mickey Jones
This is a health mother in Africa.
This is a mother who is getting a shot.
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FIGHT INFECTIOUS DISEASESFight Infectious Diseases
To fight infectious diseases is the seventh UN
Millennium Development Goal. It is to combat HIV/AIDS,
Malaria and other diseases. Today millions of people in
developing counties are dying of diseases; however, some
diseases can be easily prevented. In 2007, nearly 40 million
people were living with HIV and AIDS, they are mostly in sub-
Saharan Africa. In 2005, it was estimated 15.2 million
children who had lost one or both parents because of AIDS,
80 percent of them were in sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan
Africa has 64 percent of all the world’s people living with HIV.
But they only have 3 percent health worker can help with HIV
and AIDS. Each year, at least 1 million people die because of
malaria, and there are additional 300 to 500 million clinical
cases. Diseases are killing many people, so people in richer
countries should help by donating money to buy medicines.
This is how malaria works.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Fast Facts about Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development is the seventh Millennium
Development Goal. Because there are to many of slum
dwellers, so they set this goal to help slum dwellers.
• More than one billion slum dwellers can’t get safe
drinking water.
• Nearly two-and-a-half billion slum dwellers lack
sanitation such as toilets.
• Many cities in developing counties to have population
growth, but they don’t have recourses to plan or
manage it.
• These countries ’government must provide more clean
water and sanitation to slum dwellers, but they need
more international aid to succeed.
Is it sustainable for societies, environment and economy?
People needs clean water.
Recycling is important!
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TO BUILT A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
To Built a Global Partnership for Development
An interview with Mr. Don Smith, an UN worker.
We took a plane to New York on this sunny day. We went to the UN (Untied Nation) office and we interviewed Mr. Don, an UN worker, about the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
Reporter: “ Hi, are you Mr. Don Smith, the UN worker?”
Don: “ Yeah, that’s me.”Reporter: “ My name is Alex Anderson, I’m a news reporter from Europe and I would like to ask you a few questions
about the Millennium Development Goals. Is it fine with you?” Don: “ Yeah, It’s fine.”
Reporter: “ Which goal do you think is the most important goal out of the eight goals?” Don: “ I think the eighth goal is very important as it complement the other seven.”
Reporter: “ Why?” Don: “ Because it kind of sum up all the goals. It’s like everybody help to raise money to gave to poor people or
buy medicines and gave to developing countries to fight diseases and this ‘an’ that.”Reporter: “ Isn’t one of the target has something to do with debt?”
Don: “ Yes. Debt is a big problem as well.”Reporter: “ Why is it a big problem?”
Don: “ Because in developing countries they use much of their incomes in paying back debts, so they can’t spend enough money on schools, hospitals and other services for own people.”
Reporter: “ Do you think it’s fair to ask poor countries to pay back their debt and with interest on them?” Don: “ It’s “fair”, but they are just poor countries. I think if you don’t need the money, like you will get the money
from your income soon, you should cancelled the debt or maybe if they gave you two or three times on time then they will get once free.”
Reporter: “ Yeah. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and thanks for interviewing with me. Bye and have a nice day!” Don: “ You too. Bye bye.”
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