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Millenium Development Goals

Sunday, July 29: The Millenium Development Goals Forum
 
Patricia Terry will lead a presentation on the MDG's at 11:30 following the second service.  Please plan to attend to learn more about this crucial initiative.  Together we can end extreme poverty.  Learn How!

Water for Life
Mission: ENTREAT explores religious, scientific dimensions of water issues (Episcopal News service) By Phina Borgeson  Monday, March 19, 2007
 
...About 150 participants engaged in this year's conference, "Water for Life: Conserving Water for Nature and People," through listening, reflecting, networking, hiking and praying...
 

Learn more about safe drinking water, one of the targets for Millennium Development Goal #7, at the International Water Association Bonn Charter for Safe Drinking Water website.

 

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Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori reiterates MDG commitment at T.E.A.M. conference
 ''My prayer for the world is like that of many throughout history, that we find peace. Poverty is not going to be relieved as long as we are struggling with wars and armed conflicts,'' she added. ''The reality is that in this day and age there are no bystanders to war. If we can make peace among neighbors then we can begin more effectively to address issues of poverty.''

Read the article

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Archbishop of Canterbury upholds MDGs among Communion's top priorities
 
In an interview with Episcopal News Service, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who is attending the [Toward an Effective Anglican Mission] conference as a keynote speaker, offers some perspectives about the gathering and the mission priorities for the Anglican Communion.
 
 

 
 
What are the Millenium Development Goals?
 

At the start of the new millennium, leaders from 191 nations, including the United States, agreed on a plan to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015. Together, they created the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs):


Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education for Children
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Goal 8: Create a Global Partnership for Development

The Episcopal Church has also committed itself to achieving the MDGs.  In two consecutive General Conventions, the Church has embraced the MDGs as a framework for action.  Dioceses and churches across the nation are responding to the MDGs.  

Episcopal Relief and Development along with the Episcopal Church's ONE Episcopalian Campaign and Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation have issued a joint statement about their response to the MDGs.

Engage your friends, family, co-workers, and congregation about the MDGs, and what you’re doing to help eliminate extreme global poverty.

 

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