"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God". Micah 6:8
TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE!
Have you ever wondered what a world without poverty would look like?
Recently the United Nations agreed to support eight Millennium Development Goals to end world poverty. Christians are taking up the call by supporting the United Nations through The Micah Challenge , taking its name from the Old Testament book of Micah.
Here in Canada, World Vision is teaming up with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and other church groups to set this new standard for reducing poverty around the world. Globally this brings 260 humanitarian aid groups and three million churches together in a united effort to eradicate world poverty.
The eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals are as follows:
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Halve the population of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
- Reduce child mortality
- Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under five
- Improve maternal health
- Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS as well the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Integrate sustainable development principles and reverse environmental loss
- Halve the portion of people without access to safe drinking water
- By 2020, significantly improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
- Develop a global partnership for development
- An open trade and finance system; good governance, development and poverty education
- Address least developed, landlocked and small island countries' needs
- Deal comprehensively with debt
- Decent and productive work for youth
- Affordable essential drugs
- Access to the benefits of new technologies
To find out how you can help, visit micahchallenge.ca
