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The 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed to by all the world’s countries and leading development institutions, an unprecedented effort to meet the needs of the world’s poorest, all by the target date of 2015. 

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
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

The Blue House Connection

St. Matthew’s Pledge Benefits Blue House. Learn how a St. Paul church is helping the Blue House meet some of the Millennium Development Goals, supported by the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota.

• ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History, over 100 of America's most well-known and respected non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations committed to the MDGs.

• The Episcopal Church: ONE Episcopalian, Episcopal Relief and Development, and Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: ONE Lutheran and Millennium Development Goals Tool Kit
• The Union for Reform Judaism: The resolution Ending Global Poverty parallels Judaism’s own commitment to tikkun olam.
• The Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services