Haley Manutai
Sister Funke
FDCA 202 – 14
16 January 2015

“Eight goals, one world” - this is the slogan for the United Millennium Development Goals. In 2002, the United Nations Millennium Campaign started with eight goals to be achieved by 2015 for under developed countries. They are:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. A global partnership for development.

The campaign is meant to inspire change and inspire people to help those who could not help themselves. With goal #1 – eradicate poverty and hunger – the objective is to get rid of world hunger because there are so many hungry and poor people in the world who have no access to nourishing food. One of the suggestions by the UNMC was to give women more power in the home because from studies they had done and seen, when women have more authority in their own home, their families are healthier. And economies are more prosperous when its people are healthy and can work. This goal should be met because it will make our world a better place. Healthy people are happy and they work, and work brings prosperity to a nation that can bring globalization, which will make a better and more connected world. Universal primary education is imperatively important to people. Education breeds skills and also inspires hope and opportunity for a job and happiness. This is an incredible goal and the most important to me because education is power. It empowers people. Gender equality and empowering women is giving women the right to have authority in their homes, communities and nations. Studies have shown that when women are in control in their homes, families are healthier and