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The MDGs and You

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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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's investiture sermon calls upon the Episcopal Church to commit to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Read more here.

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How ERD is making a difference...

Countries
We lift communities out of poverty around the world in areas such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We partner with local organizations in the Anglican Communion to ensure vulnerable people have healthy food to eat and get proper health care.

Domestic
We provide critical supplies to people through local dioceses after natural and human-made disasters. We partner with the dioceses to get life-saving aid to children and their families and stay with communities after the crisis to provide ongoing support.





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