The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals with quantifiable targets and clear deadlines to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and so on. To achieve these goals and eradicate poverty, leaders of different countries signed the historic millennium declaration at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000.
The following are the eight Millennium Development Goals:
1. To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. To achieve universal primary education 3. To promote gender equality and empower women 4. To reduce child mortality 5. To improve maternal health 6. To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases 7. To ensure environmental sustainability[1] 8. To develop a global partnership for development[
The execution of these eight chapters of the Millennium Declaration was agreed to commence in 1st January 2001, and the UN agreed to be holding such summits every five years to estimate its progress towards achieving the MDGs. The first follow-up to the Millennium Summit was held in 2005 at the 2005 World Summit.
These are Some of the achievements of MDG :
* Reduction in new HIV infections in 2000 from 3.5 million cases to 2.1 million cases in 2013 * Preventing over 6.2 million deaths related with malaria between 2000 and 2015. * The supplying of over 900 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets in sub-Saharan Africa between 2004 and 2014 to malaria-endemic countries. * And so more.....
Our hopes at Sohcahtoa Foundation is to be able to help Africa, Nigeria in particular to achieve at least the first 2 goals in this grand MOU to make the world a better place.
