Millennium Development Goals

The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s.

Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education,

maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases.

Set for the year 2015, the MDGs are an agreed set of goals that can be achieved if all actors work together and do their part.

Poor countries have pledged to govern better, and invest in their people through health care and education.

Rich countries have pledged to support them, through aid, debt relief, and fairer trade.

More information on the Episcopal Church's commitment to the MDGS can be found on the National Church website here

A great article on the scriptural basis for the Church's support of each of the MDGs can be found Here

Click on the pictures above for links to the UN website defining and reporting on the status of each of the Millennium Development Goals