Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hungry

• Reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 per day by half

• Reduce the number of people who live in hunger by half

• Guarantee stable employment

What do we want to achieve?

What have we already achieved?

• The proportion of people living on less that $1.25 per day has been reduced by 600 million

• Between 1990 and 2008, the poverty rate has dropped from 47% to 24%

• In China, extreme poverty dropped from 60% in 1990 to 16% in 2005 and 12% in 2010

• In Madagascar, extreme poverty dropped from 76.3% in 2001 to 67.8% in 2005 before rising to 81.3% in 2010

• In Nicaragua, extreme hunger dropped from 55.1% in 1991 to 47.7% in 2005 and 21.5% in 2010

• In Comoros, extreme hunger rose from 43.5% in 1991 to 58.1% in 2005 and 67.8 in 2010

What Challenges Remain?

• 1.2 billion people still live on less that $1.25 a day• There are still 850 million people living in hunger

in the world

What has been done?

Wall Against Hunger• Donate money to feature a picture on the wall

Millennium Villages Project

• Addresses the root causes of extreme poverty, taking a holistic, community-led approach to sustainable development

• Slogan ‘In order to make lasting change in any one sphere of development, we must improve them all.’

• An education and advocacy organisation working to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action to see an end to extreme poverty