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Time Left To Achieve The MDGs

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Target 1 : Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportions of people whose income is less than $1 a day.
Target 2 : Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportions of people who suffer from hunger.

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Introduction:
The MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) have set one goal for the people living on less than a dollar a day. Doing away with extreme poverty is hard and steps forward it have been taken slowly and the situation has been growing worse in some regions. Another part of the Goal 1 is halving the number of people, who are suffering from hunger.

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The Eight Main Goals:

Goal 1: Poverty

About Target 1:
During the last decade, more and more people had to live in extreme poverty. You could think that no one could live on $1 a day and still stay alive. With $1 people might be able to get some of the most important things they need, but nothing more. Still more than a billion people live on less. Half of the people in developing countries live on less than $2. If we are able to hit the target, the number of people living in extreme poverty will be reduced to 890 million.

If we look at the numbers of people living in extreme poverty, South-Asia seems the poorest area. But the situation is as desperate in Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 314 million people live on less than $1 a day. There civil conflict and the spread of HIV/AIDS have destroyed the life of many people.

Goal 2: Education

Goal 3: Gender Equality

Goal 4: Child Mortality

Goal 5: Maternal Health

Goal 6: HIV/AIDS and other diseases

Goal 7: Environment

About Target 2:
Starving causes more than half of all child deaths. The food that the children get is not enough to meet the body's needs. In some cultures there are diets that lack some very important foodstuff, illnesses that lessen certain vitamins and stuff. Mothers, who have not gotten enough food, give birth to children, who weigh too little.

"Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of
shelter. Poverty is being sick and not
being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not
being able to go to school and not
knowing how to read. Poverty is not
having a job, is fear for the future, living
one day at a time. Poverty is losing a
child to illness brought by unclean
water. Poverty often has a woman's
face. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of
representation and freedom."
World Bank "Voices of the Poor ".

Goal 8: Global Partnership

A part of the answer of reducing poverty is money. People need more money to buy food. People should also get to know more about such things as food, hygiene and health. We also know that environment is a very important thing when we are talking about food. Clean water and clean nature mean cleaner food. Clean food means healthier people.

Want to help keep water clean? Organize a project with your school, environmental club, or Scout troop to plant trees, shrubs, and grasses along stream banks. That will stabilize banks to help prevent erosion, reduce sediment, filter runoff, and provide shade and wildlife habitat. Be part of the effort to clean our planet!

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Rates of the children suffering from hunger have been falling almost everywhere. But the change is still too slow to achieve the 2015 target. In many countries the number of hungry people continues to grow. Only in the East Asia and Pacific and Latin America and Caribbean regions the rates have been falling during last 10 years. But for example in Sub-Saharan Africa, the situation is worsening all the time instead of getting better.

There is enough wealth in the world to solve these problems. It just has to be used the right way. If we just remember those people in developing countries, and work together, we are able to reach the goal.