End Poverty & Hunger

In 1990, the UN adopted eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) to be acheived by the year 2015. The UN's stand is that if we, as a global community, can reach these 8 goals by the year 2015, the world will be better off.

Target 1: Between 1990 and 2015, halve the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day.

Target 2: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.

Target 3: Between 1990 and 2015, halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

You can help raise awareness of this MDG by completing the following actions:

Give all of your change to a charity today

Play a game or two of MDG Chase and share one fact you learned with someone

Create and share your own daily action related to MDG #1, Ending Poverty

Play the Stop Disasters! simulation at www.stopdisastersgame.org and share how it was challenging.

Visit Poverty.com and print off a letter to send to your government about hunger issues

Check out www.csdw.org and then share one way you could help the Children's Safe Drinking Water project.

Read through the MDG 2009 Fast Facts poster and share the fact that surprises you the most with someone

Download and play the Food-Force game from www.food-force.com

Find 3 countries that are close to meeting the Millennium Development Goals by using the Google Earth layer from www.mdgmonitor.org

Play a few rounds of the Sim*Sweatshop at www.simsweatshop.com to experience working conditions in some developing countries

Make a poster that helps raise awareness of the MDGs

Tell 3 people today something you've learned about the U.N. or the MDGs

Visit www.freerice.com and help donate at least 100 grains of rice to the World Food Programme by playing the game

Copy one of the e-mail signatures from www.mdgpledge.org and set it as your e-mail's signature

Donate at least 100 cups of water by playing a few games at www.freepoverty.com

Join the "End Poverty 2015 Campaign" at www.endpoverty2015.org

Resources

Below you will find places where you can learn more about the important work people across the globe are doing (and that you can do) in order to help achieve the Millenium Development Goal: End Poverty & Hunger.

The United Nation's Cyber Schoolbus is a perfect site for all ages to get a grasp of how kids around the world can help raise awareness of the Millenium Development Goals. Play games, check out resources, and dig into data comparing how well each country is meeting the MDGs.

The interactive Atlas of the Millenium Development Goals is a great resource for visualizing just how unbalanced the world really is. This is a great place for older students to explore on their own the inequality that exists in the world, or for teachers of younger students to help compare countries with one another.

Taking IT Global is one of the sites that the Take Action! project is based upon. Taking IT Global has games, online galleries filled with student art, resources for educators, and ways to help empower citizens to act towards achieveing the Millenium Development Goals.

Food-Force.com is an outreach program from the World Food Program. The Food Force game is a highly engaging, and instructional, game available for MAC or PC that helps teach about hunger around the world.

Everyday, 25,000 people in the world die from hunger. Poverty.com gives simple explanations as to why poverty is the biggest cause of problems around the world, including hunger-related deaths.

Play the GRUB Match Game at Taking IT Global, to learn interesting facts about how food affects health around the world.