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8 Millennium Goals

The 8 Goals:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger [Take Action]

This goal hopes to reduce by half the people who are living on less than $1 a day, and reduce by half the people who suffer from hunger. Think about it: If you don’t eat breakfast, you can’t focus as well in school, you feel tired, and by your 11 AM math class, your stomach is begging for food. Luckily, you have lunch at 12; however, not so many are as lucky. 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. By helping to feed those who are malnourished, this millennium goal can help people become healthier, and maybe give them the energy so they can work or go to school. Read more about these issues in our other causes, [extreme poverty] and [hunger]


Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education [Take Action]

This goal wants to make sure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling. Wikipedia says that primary schooling is basically school starting from when you are between four and seven years old. Around eleven or twelve years old is usually when “secondary school” starts. (In the U.S., secondary school is high school). By giving all children basic education, this goal aims to help people help themselves. Imagine: how much would you NOT be able to do if you couldn’t read? (For one thing, you wouldn’t be able to read this!) Well, 1 in 4 adults in the world cannot read. You many not love going to school every morning, but you know it’s really important for you, as well as for people everywhere.


Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women [Take Action]

The third goal aims to get rid of gender inequality in primary and secondary education at all levels by 2015. Of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty in the world, 70% of them are women. Societies where women are equal to men are more likely to reach the Millennium Goals by 2015. Imagine if the U.S. STILL didn’t let women vote. This country would be much different, and definitely not as great....