Today is our presentation day me and Julie are going first.Today is also Columbus Day.No assigned blog this week.Canada map test late next week.Notes On UN Millenium Goals Presentations:Julie and I went first and it was about HIV/AIDS combat and maleria and other dieases.Next Courtney and Alex did theirs on Eraticating Poverty and Extreme Hunger: World hunger means lack of malnutrition. to solve world hunger you first have to solve world poverty. There is no quick fix for ending hunger. It is a goal a person dies every 3.6 seconds from it. In 2008 therer was food crisis. 830 million people wre undernurished in 2006 which was more than the 90's. Most is in Asia and sub saharian Africa. Highest was in 2009 because the economys were bad around the world. Target is to reduce half people by 2015 by building programs to feed kids in Africa 3 meals a day. The major problem is kids which is why they do that. A new rice for africa was one of the sucess stories because it was giving the families in Africa more food. Progress is not moving as well as we would want it to. Poverty Is defined by someone who lives on less than a dollar twenty five a day. Poverty goals are to cut the amount of people in half that live in poverty by 2015. They also want to achieve full employment and productive work for everyone. The progress of goal one is making progerss because it has been reduced by 400 million since the 90's. It is also supposed to fall by 15% by 2015. Eastern Asia has extremely cut back. Problems with goal two is people that are working are working in really bad conditions. Also, due to unemployment more people are living in extreme poverty. Success story is a thing that lends small amouns of money to developing countries to start themselves small businesses, this has raised it by 56%.Freerice.comI got 840 grains of rice donated.
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