Millennial Development Goals(MDGs)
What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Committee
3rd Sunday of each Month 11:15am 12:30pm
Everyone is welcome!
Throughout the year, the MDG Committee strives to raise awareness of the issues behind the MDGs and point out opportunities for making the MDGs a reality. These monthly events can involve youth activities, interactive displays, lectures, or micro-lending dinners. We work with the other peace and justice teams at St. Mary's as well as the diocesan MDG Committee.
One of the tenets of the MDGs is that world poverty can be halved if ever country, congregation, and person donates 0.7% of their yearly income to MDG efforts. At St. Mary's we take this seriously. In 2007, we donated 0.7% of our parish income to purchase shares in a well, to help with the clean water and sanitation needs. In 2008, we will decide as a parish how to spend our 0.7% donation.
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Movie Nights
Good Friday Micro-loaning Dinner
Parish Discernment Meeting
MDGs and Kids
Soles for Souls Shoe Drive
For more information, go to any of these great websites:
http://www.e4gr.org/-Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
http://www.er-d.org/-Episcopal Relief and Development
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/eppn-Episcopal Public Policy Network
http://www.mdgmonitor.org/-MDG Monitor to track MDG progress
http://www.netsforlifeafrica.org/ Nets for Life
http://www.freerice.com/-donate rice while playing a game
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ONE/-Episcopal ONE Campaign
http://www.episcopalmn.org/millennium_development_goals- Mn Episcopal Diocese MDG Page
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/-United Nations MDG Page
Or read any of these great books:
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
What Can One Person Do? by Sabina Alkire & Edmund Newell
Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption by Alex Nicholls and Charlotte Opal
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
In the Shadow of Just Wars by Medecins Sans Frontieres
Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference by Shannon Daley-Harris and others
1.2 billion people live on
less than $1 a day.
110 million children aren't allowed a full course of primary education
Half a million women a year die
of complications from childbirth and pregnancy.
A child under 5 dies every three seconds from preventable, treatable causes
8,000 people (more than died in the September 11 attacks)
die each day of HIV/AIDS
source-e4gr.org
