Want to help with United Nations MDG's? Here's how!

While learning about the United Nations 8 Millennium Development Goals, I could not help but want to know more about what I could do to work towards meeting these goals in our future.  I thought by sharing ideas to help achieve these goals, we could hopefully make an even bigger difference.  Maybe each one of us that reads this could make just one contribution to one of these ideas in some way.  I found ideas that involve simply donating money, purchasing items in order to empower others, traveling to help build schools or even going on an adventure and hiking the Himalayas to help raise money.  I hope these ideas inspire others as much as they have inspired me. 

ERADICATE EXTREME HUNGER AND POVERTY

1. Volunteer or intern to help tackle the causes of poverty, hunger and hopelessness.
2. Wear white – a common symbol of the global fight to end poverty.

ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

1. Find ways within your workplace to contribute to those in need.
2. Share this story and learn how to help provide supplies to further education globally.

                               

PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWER WOMEN

1. Purchase beautiful handmade products to help empower women and children.
   
2. Travel to Peru or Thailand to help teach girls, teens and women to expect respect.

REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY RATE

1. Set up a fundraiser through your special occasion (new baby, birthday, wedding) to help mothers 2 mothers give back to HIV-positive mothers and help save babies.
   
2. No time to volunteer or fund raise? Simply donate to give a child a home, school, and medical care.

IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

1. Ever wanted to hike the Himalayas? Why not raise money while you are at it?
2. Volunteer or intern to help deliver maternal health service to women with limited   healthcare access.

COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA, & OTHER DISEASES

1. Travel to Uganda, Africa to help volunteer and help stop Malaria.
2. Volunteer or donate.

ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

1. Plant a tree, take a day to think of way to make changes, and teach a child.
2. Volunteer,fund raise, teach, and/or donate to help teach sustainability to others in Haiti.

DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

1. A place for volunteers to go where ever they are needed.
2. A special day for all volunteers to connect and promote their contributions.