Welcome to the MDGs

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Welcome to the MDGs

• Millennium
• Development
• Goals

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Six Billion Voices This world will do what we
say!

• Did You Know? In wealthier nations, one out of
  143 children dies before the age of five. In
  low-income countries, it's one in 10.

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Why? The Millennium Goals

• More than 1 billion people in the world live on
  less than 1.00 a day. In total, 2.7 billion
  people struggle to survive on less than 2.00 a
  day.

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Why? The Millennium Goals

• Poverty in the developing world, however goes far
  beyond income poverty.
• It means having to walk more than a mile everyday
  simply to collect water and firewood, and
  suffering from diseases that were eradicated from
  rich countries decades ago.
• Every year, eleven million people die, most fo
  whom are under the age of 5.
• More than six million of these children die from
  completely preventable or treatable causes like
  malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia

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Millennium Development Goals

• Is anybody doing anything to eradicate poverty?
• The answer is Yes! And you can help.

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Millennium Development Goals

• This is not about being poor. This is about
  living a slow death this is about the poverty
  that kills.

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Millennium Development Goals

• In 2000 leaders from 189 nations -- including the
  United States -- agreed to cut extreme global
  poverty in half by 2015.  189 world leaders
  unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration,
  pledging

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Millennium Development Goals

• "We will spare no effort to free our fellow men,
  women and children from the abject and
  dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty to
  which more than 1 billion of them are currently
  subjected."
• - Kofi Annan

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Millennium Development Goals

• The declaration led to the articulation of eight
  specific  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to
  be achieved between
• 2000
• and
• 2015.

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The Millennium Development Goals offer

• An unparalleled opportunity to make the world a
  better place
• A formal recognition that poverty can be solved
  when both the rich and poor world work together
• A practical and achievable set of targets for
  international development by the year 2015

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Millennium Development Goals

• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the
  world's time-bound and quantified targets for
• addressing extreme poverty, hunger and disease,
• lack of adequate shelter,
• exclusion-while promoting gender equality,
  education,
• and environmental sustainablity.
• The rights of each person on the planet earth to
  health, education, shelter, and security. 

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Millennium Development Goals

• They committed themselves and their nations to
  the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

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In a world where

• 1.2 billion people currently live on less than
  US1/day
• 28,000 children die from poverty-related causes
  everyday
• Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of
  starvation and the large majority are children
  under the age of 5. (Source UN Millennium
  Project)
• MDG 1 aims to

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Goal 1 Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

• Cut in half the proportion of people (starting
  at the 1990 proportion) whose income amounts to
  less than a dollar a day, and who suffer from
  hunger.

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In a world where

• 115 million school-aged children are not in
  school
• 133 million young people cannot read and write
• Every day more than 100 million children are
  denied the chance to go to school
• MDG 2 aims to

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Goal 2Achieve Universal Primary Education

• All children both girls and boys should be
  able to complete a full course of primary
  schooling everywhere in the world.

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In a world where

• Two-thirds of the worlds illiterate people are
  female.
• MDG 3 aims to

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Goal 3Promote Gender Equality Empower Women

• Eliminate gender disparities in primary and
  secondary education at all levels.

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In a world where

• Over 11 million children under the age of five
  die each year, most from preventable diseases
• MDG 4 aims to

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Goal 4Reduce child mortality

• Reduce the deaths of children under five years
  old by two-thirds.

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In a world where

• More than 500,000 women die from complications of
  pregnancy and childbirth every year
• More than 50 million women suffer from poor
  reproductive health and serious pregnancy-related
  illness and disability
• Every minute, a woman somewhere dies in pregnancy
  or childbirth. This adds up to 1,400 women dying
  each day-an estimated 529,000 each year-from
  pregnancy-related causes.
• MDG 5 aims to

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Goal 5Improve Maternal Health

• Reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters,
  so women need not fear childbirth.

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In a world where

• Malaria causes more than 300 million acute
  illnesses and at least one million deaths
  annually
• Every 30 seconds an African child dies of
  malaria-more than one million child deaths a
  year.
• An estimated two million deaths resulted from
  tuberculosis in 2002
• Everyday HIV/AIDS kills 6,000 people and another
  8,200 people are infected with this deadly virus.
  
• TB is the leading AIDS-related killer and in some
  parts of Africa, 75 percent of people with HIV
  also have TB.
• Each year, nearly 2 million people die of TB,
  despite the availability of inexpensive
  treatments that are effective in up to 95 of
  cases.
• MDG 6 aims to

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Goal 6Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases

• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of
  HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other
  major iseases.

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In a world where

• Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper
  sanitation facilities and one billion lack access
  to drinkable water
• More than 2.6 billion people-over 40 per cent of
  the world's population-do not have basic
  sanitation, and more than one billion people
  still use unsafe sources of drinking water.
• Four out of every ten people in the world don't
  have access even to a simple latrine.
• Five million people, mostly children, die each
  year from water-borne diseases.
• Every day 1.1 billion people have to drink
  polluted water
• Forests are disappearing at unprecedented rates
  globally

MDG 7 aims to
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Goal 7Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• Make drinking water safer and improve the lives
  of 100 million slum dwellers
• Reverse loss of environmental resources
• Integrate principles of sustainable development

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In a world where

• Cows receive more aid than people (Europes cows
  receive 2/day in subsidies)
• Many developing countries spend more on interest
  repayments on their debt than they do on health
  and education combined
• Only 5 of the worlds rich countries give the
  amount of aid they committed to in 1970
• MDG 8 aims to

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Goal 8Develop a Global Partnership for
Development

• Enable donors, governments, corporations,
  faith-based groups, non-governmental
  organizations, and individuals to work together
  to achieve these goals.

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Can it happen?

• If all the wealthy nations of the world work
  together, we can accomplish all these
  things by
• 2015
• HOW?

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What One Can Do

• Pray
• Educate
• Advocate
• Give

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Church at work

• Lambeth 1998
• Jubilee 2000?
• GC 2000
• GC 2003
• ONE launches w/ support from ERD,
• GC 2006 top priority, goal all dioceses by 2007

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Pray

• Become an intercessor on behalf of the poor and
  those who work to address poverty. Prayer is
  the way we join our work with Gods work, our
  hope with Gods hope. It is the way we connect
  our actions and love with the mission of God.

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Pray

• Hold a U2charist.
• Whats a U2charist?

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• A U2charist is an Episcopal Eucharist service
  that features the music of the rock band U2 and a
  message about God's call to rally around the
  Millennium Development Goals. 

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• The U2charist is a great opportunity to reach out
  to the people in your congregation and larger
  community, especially young people.

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• This service the music and message of U2 about
  global reconciliation, justice for the poor and
  oppressed, and the importance of and of caring
  for your neighbor.

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• Led by the global MDG ambassador, Bono, U2 is
  calling people worldwide to a deeper faith and
  engagement with God's mission. The U2charist
  seeks to be an extension of this ministry.

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Educate.

• Go to EGR Bookstore

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• ADVOCATE
• Use your power.
• Raise your voice.
• Join others.
• How?

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Advocacy Groups

• ONE Campaign www.one.org
• and ONE Episcopalian

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MDG Advocacy Groups

• Micah Challange
• Bread for the World
• R.E.S.U.L.T.S.
• CARE Action Teams

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Advocate EPPNThe Episcopal Public Policy
Network
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• GIVE
• 0.7
• Tangible, measurable, proportional
• where your treasure is, there will your heart be
  also. (Luke 1234)
• Our relationship with wealth is our greatest
  spiritual challenge.
• Provides resources for common mission building
  relationship.

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But where to give faithfully?

• Wherever your heart leads you!
• There are many great choices at hand.

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Give Faithfully
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Give Faithfully
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Notable quotes

• "Ours is the first generation in the history of
  the world with the ability to eradicate extreme
  poverty. We have the means, the resources and the
  know-how. All we lack is the will." Dr. Jeffrey
  D. Sachs

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From Our New Presiding Bishop

• "This church has said that our larger vision will
  be framed and shaped in the coming years by the
  vision of shalom embedded in the Millennium
  Development Goals a world where the hungry are
  fed, the ill are healed, the young educated,
  women and men treated equally,

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From Our New Presiding Bishop

• and where all have access to clean water and
  adequate sanitation, basic health care, and the
  promise of development that does not endanger the
  rest of creation.
• That vision of abundant life is achievable in our
  own day, but only with the passionate commitment
  of each and every one of us. It is God's vision
  of homecoming for all humanity."

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• CARE Joe Iarocci of the Cathedral give 200
  white bands for distribution around diocese

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• Diocesan MDG Task Force established Dec. 2005
  begins survey of current MDG work around diocese
• Parishes begin adding 0.7 minimum giving to
  their budgets.

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• Parishes around the diocese do MDG studies Advent
  2004 and Lent 2005, 2006, using Alkire and
  Lloyds books, Preach the Gospel at All Times,
  The End of Poverty and Bread for the Worlds
  2006 Offering of Letters

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• Two U2charists, at St. Francis, Macon, and All
  Saints, Atlanta help lead to the huge success of
  a U2charist at General Convention, June 2006.

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• Stand Up Against Poverty global initiative joined
  by 17 parishes around the diocese, Oct. 15, 2005,
  setting a world record.

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• Bishops Annual Address to council
• "I want to invite the Diocese of Atlanta to be a
  leader among the dioceses of the Episcopal Church
  and the Anglican Communion in support of the
  Millennium Development Goals

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The Diocese of Atlanta at workan MDG timeline

• This is about a great deal more than putting a
  rather modest amount of money on the table. It is
  about education. It is about spirituality. It is
  about faith. It is about discipleship. Can we
  seriously call ourselves disciples of Jesus and
  not be about the business of changing the world?
  I don't think so."

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• Episcopalians for
• Global Reconciliation
• Ending Poverty. Uniting the Church
• Healing a Broken World
• www.e4gr.org

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What will you find on their website.

• U2 Eucharists
• MDG Toolkits
• What One Can Do
• Prayers, Sermons, Litanies
• Understanding the MDGs
• Ways to make your gift to the MDGs

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The World at work

• Make Poverty History

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Be part of an international movement to
MakePovertyHistory
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The World at work

• Stand UpAgainst Poverty
• Official Guinness Verification The world record
  for the most people to 'Stand Up Against Poverty'
  in 24 hours was set on 15 - 16 October 2006 for
  the United Nation's Millennium Campaign and
  involved a massive total of 23,542,614
  participants in 11,646 events around the globe.
• Africa - 3,624,381 Arab Region - 516,949 Asia -
  18,195,126 Europe - 894,854 Latin America the
  Caribbean - 54,901 North America - 163,066
  Oceania - 93,337

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The Power of ONE together

• Every diocese - 1.2 million/year
• Every parish - 9.8 million/year
• Every Episcopalian - 354 million/year
• U.S. Government - 75 billion/year
• Rich Countries -- 175 billion/year

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Thank you
NO EXCUSES!!!

• http//www.e4gr.org

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Powerpoint Presentation by

• The Rev. Canon Debra Shew
• Amanda Meng
• From the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta