What are the Millenium Development Goals?
At the start of the new millennium, leaders from 19 nations-including the United States-agreed on a plan to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015. Together, they created the MDGs.
- Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
- Achieve Universal Primary Education
- Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
- Reduce Child Mortality
- Improve Maternal Health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure Environmental Sustainability
- Create a Global Partnership
These goals have been adopted as the #1 Program and Funding Priority for the Episcopal Chuch in the USA, and the 0.7% giving has been upheld in most Episcopal Dioceses, including MN; and by a growing number of parishes, including St Mary's!
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals we are striving toachieve by 2015 that respond to the world's poverty challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. The MDGs were adopted as a platform by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 2006. The Diocese of Minnesota and St. Mary's followed soon after.