The MDGs | Poverty, Trade and Debt Goals
Doing the sums
Goal 1 by 2015: 400,000 more people have a secure food supply and don’t go hungry |
Goal 2 by 2015: The remaining 80 million primary age children start school |
Goal 3 by 2015: All girls stay at school for as long as boys do |
Goal 4 by 2015: 5 million less children under five die each year taking the number who die to around 4 million per year |
Goal 5 by 2015: Over 350,000 less women die due to pregnancy or childbirth |
Goal 6 by 2015: HIV/AIDS rates level off and then begin to decline from the 40 million people currently effected |
Goal 7 by 2015: A clean water supply for 600,000 more people |
Goal 7 by 2015: Adequate sanitation for another 1.6 billion people (25% of the world’s population) |
Goal 8 by 2015: Fairer trade allows many millions of farmers to make a sustainable living for their families |
- It is currently unlikely that all the Goals will be achieved so decide which you think are the most important by diamond ranking them. Cut out the 9 cards and order them in the shape of a diamond 1-2-3-2-1
- How did you decide that some Goals are more important than others? Does achieving some Goals help to achieve other Goals?
public organizations and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the structures of a state.









