Krishna Giri
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The Goals of Millennium Development Goals And some Facts
September 12, 2006 - 05:08 AM
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ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
Imagine you worked a full day to exhaustion, in unhealthy conditions, and still only earned $1. Could you feed yourself? How could you pay for a home? Even today there are over 238 million young people like you living on less than one dollar a day. Goal 1 is about lifting people out of extreme poverty by providing them with the basic things they need to live a decent life: nutritious food, clothes, clean water, a home and health care.
1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day
Every day, 800 million people go to bed hungry
Every day, 28,000 children die from poverty-related causes
ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
While some of us complain about doing homework, many children only wish they could go to school. Lots of young people have to work in order to support their family instead of going to school and, in some families, girls are expected to stay home and help with chores, forcing them to give up their own education. Providing children with a basic education is the best investment the world can make in its future. Education reduces poverty by providing everyone with choices and opportunities to create a better life for themselves. Goal 2 aims to make sure that children everywhere - boys and girls alike - are able to complete a full course of primary schooling by 2015.
115 million children are not in school - 56% of them are girls and 94% of
them live in developing countries
133 million young people cannot read or write
Only 37 of 155 developing countries have achieved universal primary school
completion
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