MDGS MANY DOING GOOD

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MDGS -- MANY DOING GOOD

• The Millennium
• Development Goals

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Advocates for the MDGs

• Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, author of The End of
  Poverty
• Bono, lead singer for the rock group U2

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• www.episcopalchurch.org/ONE/

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• What you do makes a difference, and you have
  to decide what kind of difference you want to
  make.
• Jane Goodall

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1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Sudanese art
• inspired by
• the MDGs
• www.bread.org
• www.thehungersite.com
• www.oxfamamerica.org

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2 Achieve universal primary education

• Debt cancellation in Tanzania enabled 1.6 million
  children to enroll in school
• www.jubileeusa.org

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• Please contribute generously
• Thank you
• www.er-d.org

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3 Promote gender equality and empower women

• Women to Women
• helps women in poor countries set up
  income-producing projects to improve their lives
  and strengthen their communities
• www.nationalecw.org/Social_Justice.html

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4 Reduce child mortality

• www.unicef.org

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• UTO 2009 grant criteria will focus on projects to
  alleviate profound human suffering that directly
  impacts the lives of women and children.
• www.episcopalchurch.org/uto.htm

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5 Improve maternal health

• www.care.org

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Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur

• www.savedarfur.org

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What can one ...

• ... person do?
• ... congregation do?
• ... diocese do?
• ... the Body of Christ do?

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6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Malawi is one of the poorest nations on earth
• www.thegaia.org

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7 Environmental sustainability

• We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water
  ...
• BCP 306
• www.africanwellfund.org

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8 Develop a global partnership for development

• Please contribute generously
• Thank you
• www.er-d.org

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• "The alleviation of material suffering in the
  world and the spiritual renewal of the church go
  hand in hand.
• The Rev. Dr. Sabina Alkire,
• co-author of What Can One Person Do?

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• Many UTO grants go
• to projects in the
• worldwide Anglican
• Communion which
• meet compelling
• human needs and
• further the MDGs.

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• Its not about charity its about justice.
• Bono on Larry King Live, November, 2006

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Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten nor the
hope of the poor be taken away.
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