There are approximately 5 years, 143 days, and 10 hours left to make a change.

End Poverty by 2015 - that was the big hairy audacious goal of 189 world leaders when they agreed to the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. 

The Millennium Development Goals

1. Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

2. Universal Primary Education

3. Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

4. Reduce Child Mortality

5. Improve Maternal Health

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases

7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Check out the 8 Goals for Africa campaign for the music video created by African musicians ranging from Baaba Maal and Eric Wainaina to the Soweto Gospel Choir encouraging everyone to push for these goals (rights) and to support the organizations and governments working to achieve them.

IIRR is doing its part by:

1. leading job creation, entrepreneurship, and value chain participation efforts to help rural communities develop environmentally sustainable and locally appropriate income generating activities and then to be able to manage and grow those businesses effectively

2. supporting preschool, primary, and adult education in pastoralist regions of Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya

3. supporting gender mainstreaming, women's literacy and income generation, and Learning Our Way Out (LOWO) methodologies in development

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4. encouraging Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Managed Natural Resources Management which typically involves creating access to clean water, sustainable agriculture, and reducing likelihood of deaths caused by flooding, drought, and other natural disasters along with water-borne diseases

for more information on IIRR's work, please visit our website at www.iirr.org