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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

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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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