One goal that the United Nations hopes to achieve is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Within this goal, the UN has set three main targets that they also hope to achieve by 2015. The targets include decreasing the proportion of people who have an income of less than $1 per day by half; achieve full and productive work for all, including women and young people; and to decrease the proportion of people that suffer from hunger by half.
The main reason that the United Nations has set this as one of their goals is due to the fact that severe poverty and starvation is a very large issue and our world, one statistic provided on the UN website states that there are over 870,000,000 people worldwide which is the equivalent to one out of every eight people who is still going hungry, despite the worldwide efforts to end starvation.
The United Nations has come a long way working to achieve this goal. Since they have started working towards ending poverty and starvation they have achieved one of their targets to decrease the proportion of people who have an income of less than $1 per day by half.
With the help of the United Nations countries around the world are improving. In Bosnia-Herzegovina they have set up multiple centers that provide job counseling for young people who are unemployed. Farmers in Cambodia have had wages increase from 47 cents a day to $1.40 per day. Yemen is working to keep girls in school so they can receive an education which will help them find a good job when they are older.
While the United Nations still has a ways to go until they completely accomplish their goal, they have already come a long way since they have begun and continue to work to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
"United Nations Millennium Development Goals." UN News Center. UN, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013.
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