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Millennium Development Goal
1 – To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target – Between 1990 and 2015, halve the proportion of people whose income is less that $1 a day.
Target – Between 1990 and 2015, halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
In 1990, nearly 28 per cent of people in low- and middle-income countries were living on less than $1 (60p) a day. Many people living at this level of poverty cannot afford to pay for basic requirements such as food. The aim of the first Millennium Development Goal is to reduce this figure to 14 per cent by 2015, thereby lifting more than 500 million people out of extreme poverty. While this will not signify a complete eradication of poverty, it will bring the world closer to a stage when all its people will have the minimum necessary to feed and clothe themselves.
Activities for this goal include:
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Kenya shanty town case study
Information about a school for poor people in Nairobi. |
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Living on one dollar (60p) a day
How do you make ends meet on 60p a day? What do we need to live and what happens if we don't have those things? |
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What is poverty?
What does it mean to be poor? How many people in the world are poor? Group discussion using statistics and quotations.
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Download Goal 1 poster (119KB pdf)
Download background information and activities for this poster
(78KB pdf)
From the Change the World in Eight Steps online resource.
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