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Footsteps 63

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MEETING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

This issue has a different structure from previous issues. Instead of looking at one particular topic, we have chosen to focus on the eight Millennium Development Goals. The eight Millennium Development Goals were agreed together by 189 nations in September 2000 with the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations. They were agreed as achievable and were seen as the best way of tackling issues of poverty around the world. They represent an enormously encouraging step for the world.

A huge amount of information about the Millennium Development Goals has been written for governments, donors and NGOs. However, there has been little effort to make these goals relevant to the lives of ordinary people. In 2005, with ten more years remaining to meet the goals, a major review of progress is being made.

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Bible study Advocacy for healthcare. Thousands of people die every day from preventable diseases, from lack of proper healthcare or information about health issues. Many of these deaths are related to issues of international debt, corruption and bad governanc... More >>

Editorial This issue has a different structure from previous issues. Instead of looking at one particular topic, we have chosen to focus on the eight Millennium Development Goals. The eight Millennium Development Goals were agreed together by 189 nations in Se... More >>

Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger This goal aims to reduce by half the number of people whose income is less than $1 a day, and those who suffer from hunger. A new approach to caring for malnourished children by Ed Walker. In southern Sudan, drought and the effects of 20 years of... More >>

Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education The goal is to enable all children, boys and girls alike, to complete primary schooling. Steps towards the right to education by Lilia Solano. Upper Cazucá is an area in Colombia where Proyecto Justicia y Vida (Justice and Life Project) works. It... More >>

Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women One of the targets of this goal is to enable girls to attend all levels of schooling in equal numbers to boys. Providing girls with a future and a hope by Ines Caballero. Mosoj Yan is an organisation working with young street girls and working g... More >>

Goal 4 Reduce child mortality The target for this goal is to reduce by two thirds the number of deaths in children under five. Background Over 10 million children under five die each year from preventable illnesses. These include diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria and HIV and AIDS. ... More >>

Goal 5 Improve maternal health One of the targets for this goal is to reduce by three quarters the number of women dying in childbirth. Helping women in labour Over 50 million women give birth each year without help. Each year nearly 600,000 women die worldwide from preventabl... More >>

Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases The targets for this goal are to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by 2015. Background Malaria is a disease transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. There are 300–500 m... More >>

Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability Targets include the need to protect the environment, to reduce by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and to significantly improve the lives of slum dwellers. Background 2.6 billion people lack acces... More >>

Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development Targets for this goal are aimed at Northern governments and include major increases in development aid, relieving debt in resource-poor countries and developing a fair international trading system. Background Nearly 90% of third world debt rema... More >>

Letters Seed for medicinal plants. Following the Footsteps issue on the use of medicinal plants, I started to collect plants from this region, catalogue them with their local names and plant them on our farm. I would like to receive or exchange seeds of... More >>

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals by the Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane. There are many forms of oppression and suffering – they can be physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Poverty is often caused by oppression, and usually causes suffering. Poverty undermines families and dama... More >>

Resources HIV and AIDS: taking action (ROOTS 8) This new book looks at how the church and Christian development organisations can respond to the challenges brought by HIV and AIDS; reducing their impact, preventing the spread of HIV and addressing HIV and AIDS... More >>

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