APRIL 23 ,2009

Thank you for reading The Daily Monstrosity special is-sue on the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Devel-opment Goals were es-tablished by the UN to help developing coun-tries and the world. Many people in devel-oping countries live in poverty, don’t have electricity, running wa-ter, and many other basic things that many people in developed countries do have. To find more about the Millennium Develop-ment Goals please read on.

Special United Nations Millennium Development Goals Issue.

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“Why Should We Help”

Why should we help people across the world in poverty,Why should we care,

Because we can help,Because people are already helping,

Because a leaf pile of one leaf is useless,But a pile of millions and millions of leafsWill soften the fall,

Because 1.2 billion people live on less than one dollar a day,And we have extra money,

That could help.

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to make sustainable devel-opment, but what is sustainable development? Sustainable development is when you make something that can last for future generations and is good for the environment, economy, and culture of the country. Sustainable develop-ment is important to achieve everywhere because if one country has a bad environment or economy it affects the world. For example, if a smoke cloud is in one country it might go to other countries. Farming might and might not be sustainable, it depends on where you get the food from. It is good for the people in the country because they can eat. The economy can be helped be-cause people are getting money, but the environment might be hurt because of shipping or other things. Shipping can hurt the environment because it might use gas. Ensuring sustainable development is important, and if this Mil-lennium Development Goal is reached it will help the world.

What is Sustainable Development

One of the most important Millennium Development Goals is to provide equal chances for girls and women. I think that this is one of the most important goals because it creates more working people that can help the society. It can also pro-vide more money for families. In many developing countries, girls and women aren’t treated as well as men, this is a huge problem. Females are untreated in many different ways, most can’t go to school and many are less likely to get a job than men; however, things are improving.

Doors are slowly opening for women, except there is still a long way to go. More women are getting jobs and more are completing school.

Equal Chances

AN INTERVIEW ON POVERTY To find more about the Millennium De-velopment Goals, (MDG) Roger Smith talked many times with representative of the United Nations Mr. Jones, this is his in-terview on goal one: poverty.

S: Thank you for talking with me about the MDG on poverty.

J: I’m glad to be here.

S: How big is the problem of poverty?

J: It is a huge problem; about 1.2 billion people in the world have to live on less than 1 dollar a day. Many of those people can’t get clean water don’t have a toilet and don’t have any radios or TV’s.

S: How interesting. How will this goal affect the other goals?

J: If we achieve this goal, it would be a great step in all the other goals because people will have more money to buy health care. Governments will have more money to help the environment as well as build roads and many other things.

S: Are we on track on meeting this goal?

J: The overall rate of poverty in the world is going down; however, in sub-Saharan Africa, the rate of poverty has gone up.

S: How should richer countries help poorer countries lift people out of poverty?

J: The most important thing is that you can’t just give someone money, that money will eventually deplete. You need to teach them how to be independent or else you will need to help them forever.

S: Wow, I learned many things in this interview. I hope to see you again.

J: So do I.

Education is a very important thing to achieve. In many developing countries, many people can’t get an education. This is why the second Millennium Development Goal is to educate every child. Here are some facts on education.

• In South Asia, over 17 million children are out of school, 67% of these children are girls.

• About 15 million more teachers are needed by 2015 for everyone to be educated.

• Only 52 of 155 developing countries have achieved this goal.

• In 1990, 140 million kids in the world couldn’t go to school.

• In 2005, 72 million kids around the world couldn’t go to school.

Some Facts on Education

Every day, people in developing countries die of disease; however, many of these deaths could have been easily prevented. People in de-veloping countries are dying of disease; this is because of many rea-sons: one reason is that medicines aren’t available and might not be af-fordable to people in these countries, another reason is doctors and nurses in developing countries may not be trained well enough to take care of their patients. Also the environment may trigger many diseases. Disease is a huge problem. Many diseases that people are dying from could be stopped very simply, like if we made the environment cleaner. If people had just cleaner water, malaria and many other diseases could be stopped. Also if people have to live extremely close together, diseases could spread easily. This is one thing we need to fix. Training doctors is also something they lack in developing coun-tries. They can’t train doctors because they don’t have very many schools and universities that can teach them about health, for example, 64% of all the people with HIV live in sub- Saharan Africa; however, they only have 3% of the world’s health workers who can treat people with HIV/AIDS. They can’t train doctors because they don’t have very many schools and universities that can teach them about health. We could stop disease easily if doctors were trained better. Another big problem is medicines are hard to get. Many hospitals in developing countries can-not afford necessary medicines to fight com-mon diseases. Also if hospitals do have these medicines many people can’t afford them. Healthcare is an ex-tremely serious problem in developing countries and can greatly be helped by very simple things.

Disease in Developing Countries

To find more about the MDG’s, (Millennium Development Goals) Roger Smith spoke to many people at the UN. This is his interview with UN representative Mr. Jones on MDG 4 and 5 regarding childbirth and pregnancy.

S: Thank you for taking your time to talk to me about the Millennium Development Goals.

J: It’s my pleasure.

S: What are you trying to achieve in goals 4 and 5?

J: In goal 4 we are trying to reduce the number babies who die during or right after birth and in goal 5 we want to ensure safe and healthy motherhood.

S: Why are these goals important?

J: Because in order to keep the population stable, we need to make sure that mothers and babies don’t die as soon as the mother gives birth.

S: How come this is more of a problem in developing countries than developed countries?

J: This is more of a problem in developing countries because they don’t have good healthcare so it is more likely that babies or mothers die, also many mothers may not know what to do in a pregnancy and might work hard or might not get regular checkups during pregnancy, and many women don’t even go to the hospital to give birth because their might not be one nearby and they can’t get to them.

S: Do you think that we can reach this goal by 2015?

J: I think it would be hard to reach these goals, but if we work hard and help is given, we can definitely reach these goals.

S: What should be done to achieve these goals?

J: I think one of the most important things is to inform the people on what to do while pregnant. But another issue is that hospitals are hard to get to, so we should try to build better roads to hospitals and more hospitals. Another thing is the quality of the hospitals; many hospitals are too expensive for people in poverty or don’t have all the necessary tools to help the people.

S: Thank you for talking with me.

J: It was nice to be here

An Interview on Childbirth