1	The Millennium Development Goals Interact Presents:
2	What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? A blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries for how to make the world a better place. The 8 MDGs are…
3	Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Targets: Cut in half the proportion of people living on less than $1/day Cut in half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
4	Facts: 1/3 of deaths are caused by poverty Over 1 billion people live on less than $1/day. Almost half of people live on less than $2/day. 3 richest people control more wealth than all 600 million people living in the world's poorest countries. 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.
5	Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education Target: Make sure all boys and girls complete primary school
6	Facts: ¼ of adults in the developing world are illiterate. Almost half of the girls in the world's poorest countries have no access to primary school. Universal primary education: $10 billion/year What Americans spend on Ice Cream: $20 billion/year
7	Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women Target: Eliminate gender inequality in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 At all levels by 2015
8	Facts: 1.3 billion people are living in poverty, 70% are women. Women: work 2/3 of the world's working hours produce 1/2 of the world's food earn only a 1/10 of the world's income own less than 1% of the world's property. 75% of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women.
9	Goal 4 Reduce child mortality Target: Reduce by 2/3 the mortality rate among children under five
10	Facts: 600 million children live in absolute poverty. 11 million children die before their fifth birthday per year. One child dies of hunger every 3 seconds.
11	Goal 5 Improve maternal health Target: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
12	Facts: One woman dies every minute in pregnancy and childbirth. Of these deaths, 99% are in developing countries. In parts of Africa, maternal mortality rates are 1 in 16. In Canada, they’re 1 in 20,000.
13	Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Target: Stop and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other major diseases
14	Facts: To fight AIDS: $10.5 billion/year In 2007: $15 billion/year What is being spent: $4 billion In Zambia, 1 in 10 children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Every day in Africa, 6,500 people die and another 9,500 are infected by HIV (1,400 are newborn babies infected by their mothers) 5 people die from AIDS every minute. 1 in every 100 people worldwide is HIV positive Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least one million per year.
15	Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability Targets: Stop the loss of environmental resources Cut in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water Improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
16	Facts: 2.5 billion don’t have access to improved sanitation 1.2 billion don’t have access to an improved source of water. Disposable diapers take 500 years to decompose. Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours Over half of the world's tropical forests have been lost.
17	Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development Targets: Develop a fair open trading and financial system Reduce tariffs and debts for LDCs and HIPCs Help landlocked and small island States Increase jobs for youth. Increase access to pharmaceutical drugs in developing countries Bridge the technology gap
18	Facts: Rich countries to protect their markets: $100 billion/year Aid for developing countries: $50 billion/year The average cow in the EU gains more than $2/day in subsidies - more than 3 billion people in developing countries gain less than this. Sub-Saharan Africa (poorest region of the world) spends $14.5 billion/year repaying debts rich countries and international institutions.
19	Youth Projects Students from Florida making solar ovens, using proceeds from their annual plant sale to send large VILLAGER SUN OVENS to help feed people in Haiti, Senegal, and Afghanistan. In Tanzania, 29% of the population is infected with the HIV virus. The Teenage Life Programme, started giving talks and workshops to create awareness not only about HIV/AIDS but also prostitution, rape, drug abuse, drunkenness, and social responsibility. YouthCaN is a youth run organization that uses technology to inspire, connect and educate people about environmental issues. In 2003, Nguyen Van Dung, a 23-year-old Vietnamese, spent a month bicycling through Viet Nam on a 2,100-km journey, meeting with young people to raise awareness of MDGs.
20	What is Interact doing about it? Goal 1: Hunger Helpers Goal 2: School Supply Drive Goal 3: ? Goal 4: ? Goal 5: Breastfeeding Challenge Goal 6: 30 Hour Fast Goal 7: working with ESCAPE (sustainable schools project) Goal 8: ? Stand Up: Oct. 15 & 16
21	How can you help? Anyone have some project ideas? Start your own project Spread awareness Write letters Join Interact (Fridays @ lunch) Join ESCAPE (Tuesdays @ lunch) Visit these sites:
22	Sites: Millennium Campaign: http://www.millenniumcampaign.org UN Millennium Goals: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/index.html Cyberschoolbus: http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/mdgs/index.html UNDP: http://www.undp.org/mdg/ Make Poverty History: http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/video/ Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/Publications/videoclips.asp
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