Our Programs

The world's leaders have called on resource-rich nations to give an amount equal to 0.7% of their Gross National Product (GNP) to eliminate poverty and create sustainable development in the developing world.

The 73rd and 74th General Conventions endorsed the Millennium Development Goals, which focus the world community on eliminating poverty and sustaining long-term development in the poorest countries in the world.

Millennium Development Goals	What We Need To Do	Examples
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger	Cut in half the number of people who live on less than $1 per day Cut in half the number of hungry people	Haiti Philippines
2. Achieve universal primary education	Ensure that boys and girls everywhere are able to complete a full course of primary school	Botswana Sudan
3. Promote gender equality and empower women	Eliminate discrimination against women in education and wages	Afghanistan South Africa
4. Reduce child mortality	Reduce by two-thirds the number of children who die before age five	Dominican Republic
5. Improve maternal health	Reduce by 75% the number of women who die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth	Haiti El Salvador
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases	Stop the spread of these diseases and see a decline the death rates	Namibia Zambia
7. Ensure environmental stability	Cut in half the number of people without access to safe drinking water Reverse the loss of natural resources by practicing sustainable development	Tanzania Nicaragua
8. Develop a global partnership for development	Improve levels of development assistance, provide access to markets, offer solutions for indebted countries	Argentina Venezuela

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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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