Mary’s Meals and the Millennium Development Goals

The right to have enough food to eat to sustain life is one of the most basic rights of all. Education is also a human right which should be claimed and used by every child. Basic needs such as these are recognized in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), drawn up by the UN.

These goals are a blueprint to relieve the suffering of the world’s poorest people. The  target date to achieve these goals is 2015.  Mary’s Meals is a movement to set up school feeding programmes in communities where poverty stops children from gaining an education.  The work of Mary’s Meals is contributing to the achievement of the first four MDGs:

Goal 1 – End Poverty and Hunger

Goal 2 – Universal Education

Goal 3 – Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Goal 4 -Reduce Child Mortality

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