Reduce the number of people living on less that 125 per day by half Reduce the number of people who live in hunger by half Guarantee stable employment What do we want to achieve What have we already achieved ID: 276106
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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and HungrySlide2
Reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 per day by halfReduce the number of people who live in hunger by half
Guarantee stable employment
What do we want to achieve?Slide3
What have we already achieved?
The proportion of people living on less that $1.25 per day has been reduced by 600 millionBetween 1990 and 2008, the poverty rate has dropped from 47% to 24%Slide4
In China, extreme poverty dropped from 60% in 1990 to 16% in 2005 and 12% in 2010
In Madagascar, extreme poverty dropped from 76.3% in 2001 to 67.8% in 2005 before rising to 81.3% in 2010In Nicaragua, extreme hunger dropped from 55.1% in 1991 to 47.7% in 2005 and 21.5% in 2010
In Comoros, extreme hunger rose from 43.5% in 1991 to 58.1% in 2005 and 67.8 in 2010Slide5
What Challenges Remain?
1.2 billion people still live on less that $1.25 a dayThere are still 850 million people living in hunger in the worldSlide6Slide7Slide8Slide9
What has been done?
Wall Against HungerDonate money to feature a picture on the wallSlide10
Millennium Villages Project
Addresses the root causes of extreme poverty, taking a holistic, community-led approach to sustainable development
Slogan ‘In order to make lasting change in any one sphere of development,
we must improve them all.
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An education and advocacy
organisation working to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action to see an end to extreme poverty