Millennium Development Goal # 1:

Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

Imagine you had $1 a day to live on. We’re not talking about what $1 US currency could by in a third world country. We’re talking about what you could do with just $1 a day to live on. You couldn’t live very long. And that is what extreme poverty is. It is people dying because they have less than $1 a day to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves. There are 1.2 billion people in our world who have to survive, or not, on $1 a day. Every day, 800 million people go to bed hungry. Every day, 28,000 children die from hunger and other poverty related causes.

Millennium Development Goal # 1 seeks to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people in the world whose income is less than $1 a day.

Millennium Development Goal # 1 seeks to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people in the world who suffer from hunger.

What can we do?

Notify our elected representatives that we expect the U.S. to fulfill the commitment made in 2000.

Go to Episcopals for Global Reconciliation (http://www.e4gr.org) to find out more about this movement and how you can make a difference.

Make the ONE Episcopal pledge to give an additional .7 % of your income, above your normal contributions, to one of the ONE partners listed at http://www.one.org/partners.

Give generously to our collection on Oct. 14 for Bread for the World, which for more than 30 years has been a Christian voice for ending hunger.