Millenium Development Goals

This is a personal reminder...in fact, this entire blog is a personal notepad, and I tend to talk to myself and need to be reminded of things constantly.

Millennium Development Goals

Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 is a Millennium Development Goal. In addition to broader approaches, the Sachs Report (for the UN Millennium Project) ^[7] proposes a series of "quick wins", approaches identified by development experts which would cost relatively little but could have a major constructive effect on world poverty. The quick wins are:

• Access to information on sexual and reproductive health.
• Action against domestic violence.
• Appointing government scientific advisors in every country.
• Deworming school children in affected areas.
• Drugs for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
• Eliminating school fees.
• Ending user fees for basic health care in developing countries.
• Free school meals for schoolchildren.
• Legislation for women’s rights, including rights to property.
• Planting trees.
• Providing soil nutrients to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Providing mosquito nets.
• Access to electricity, water and sanitation.
• Supporting breast-feeding.
• Training programs for community health in rural areas.
• Upgrading slums, and providing land for public housing.

Stumbled upon this guy Malcolm and his website last night...super cool, interesting approach to life and work, and is an inspirational story. I'd like to buy HIM a beer...
http://www.crazymalc.co.nz
with a link to an interesting grassroots organization in Uganda that I might check out in the future.... www.TheRealUganda.com