We support the UN Millennium Goals:
With two billion of the world's people living on less than $2 a day, alleviating this crushing poverty and the health, social and
environmental ills that accompany it, is everyone's responsibility. Most projects we support are in developing countries, as these
projects yield the greatest social return on investment.
We support the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which aim to significantly reduce world poverty by the year 2015:
- Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieving universal primary education
- Promoting gender equality and empowering women
- Reducing child mortality
- Improving materanal health
- Combating HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensuring environmental sustainability
- Developing a global partnership for development
In this section we elaborate on some of these issues to provide educational backround information on their significance.
On a large scale, entire rural populations that are poor and undernourished are prone to diseases including AIDS and Malaria, struggle to send their children to school, or to buy medicines and enough food. Starvation and disease eventually causes death.
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The lack of clean water close to people’s homes also affects people’s time, livelihoods and quality of life. Many women and children in developing countries spend hours each day walking miles to collect water. This water is usually dirty and unsafe but they have no alternative.
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In underdeveloped communities, even simple health issues are amplified due to the lack of local resources to fight disease and lower education levels that would help promote better health practices.
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A good education is one of the most basic rights of the child. Without one, a child is immediately disadvantaged and far less likely to achieve their true potential. Nor is it enough simply to send a child to school – although millions of children are not even given this. What, how and when they are taught is what lies at the heart of true education.
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Access to energy (electricity/gas etc) is a key issue for many people living in impoverished communities. Being 'off the grid' can mean that your days end when the sun goes down - lost time for education, home cottage industries, not to mention the health risks often associated with alternatives such as feeble kerosene lamps.
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investing in women and girls has a big ripple effect and one of the best ways to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty that traps many people around the world.
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