Monday, September 24, 2007

Executive Summary of Africa

*The Millennium Development Goal program has been established by the United Nations to achieve to end poverty in developing countries by 2015. The main goal of the program is to decrease the rates of hunger, diseases and poverty.
*The Millennium Development Goal program gives money to undeveloped countries or regions, and for them to be able to improve the life style, they do not attempt to do it all at once, but a group at a time. For the UN they are not interested on the fact that if the country or region is their neighbor or not, they are more concerned and focused on what they are morally obligated to do.* The Millennium Development has eight main goals that are in-reach, but in order for them to be achieved global support is needed. The U.S. being an extremely rich nation should be a significant supported, but they are not giving much to the greater cause.
*The Millennium Development goal is to reduce the number of HIV positive, improve and ensure environmental sustainability, decrease the number of kids dying because of child mortality.
*Currently there are 28 thousand kids that die a day due to poverty related causes, by 2015 the UN and Millennium Development goal is to reduce this number dramatically.
*By the year 2015 one of their many goals if to reduce by half the number of people living on a dollar a day.
*The Millennium Project is also trying to achieve universal primary education, for everyone, with that also promote gender equality and empower women. Once universal primary education is reached, to eliminate gender or age disparity in primary or secondary schooling.
*A great part of the Millennium project is to stop and reverse the spread of HIV/Aids, Malaria and other diseases.
*For example, it is rarely heard that tuberculosis is also becoming a big problem in Africa, and people need to become aware of the problems, in other to be able to help.*The Millennium Development Goal project number one goal, is to be able to aware others, whom are not Africa's neighbor to be able to help them, because we are all humans, and it could happen to any of us, no one is a 100% protected from any of the problems going on in Africa.*The recommendation the report gives to those who wish to help, is that as a class the best way we can help is by keeping people aware of the problems, and giving them statistics because it is more shocking rather than just repeating the same information over and over.*I think the Millennium Development Goal project is a really positive and good one that not only aware us but also does things to help those we are learning about.

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