MILLENNIUM GOALS

Poverty is complex. At its core lies a lack of systems and structures that can translate hard work into wealth and empowerment. The poor toil but to little avail. They cannot afford food, housing, doctors, or environmental improvement. Sometimes, their children have to go to work to earn instead of to school.

In 1990, world leaders gathered in New York to fight poverty with the Millennium Development Goals. Hand in Hand has developed all its programmes in alignment with these goals.

These goals are:

• To end poverty and hunger: To halve the amount of people living on less than one dollar per day by 2015
• Universal Education: That all children by 2015 are able to complete primary education
• Gender equality: To eliminate gender disparity in education by 2015.
• Child Health: To reduce the under-five mortality rate by 67%
• Maternal Health: To reduce maternal mortality rate by 75%
• Combat HIV/AIDS: To halt the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Environmental sustainability: To integrate policies of sustainable development into countries' policies, and to reverse loss of environmental resources
• Global partnerships: To address the special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states