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Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger
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Facts
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Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources (2015).
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015.
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
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Did you know that in our world today:
- One third of deaths – some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day – are due to poverty-related causes. That’s 270 million people since 1990, the majority women and children, roughly equal to the population of the US. (Reality of Aid 2004)
- Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases – that’s over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds. (80 Million Lives, 2003 / Bread for the World / UNICEF / World Health Organization)
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Featured Projects
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Who’s making time for them?
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1. Vision Network, run by Kiat Hock, aims to facilitate community development as a partial solution to Asian poverty.
2. Focus India Forum, run by Ramya, is a group of Non-Resident Indians who regularly contribute money to support development projects back in India.
3. DHL does annual fundraising walk for World Food Programme
4. Food For All, run by Heather Chi, is mapping out food distribution locally, with an interest on international food security in the long run.
5. Vision Network promotes urban agriculture (for food security during emergencies). |
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