Tuesday Dec 4

Maternal Health: Of the 40 countries with the highest maternal death, 36 are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ten countries have already reached the UN goal of cutting by 75%.

Enviromental Sustainability: Goals to reduce the amount of people who cannot access safe drinking water-2015. Also to give schools a safe place for kids to learn and play. Deforistation, habitat destruction, and pollution are big obstacles. 8% now have access to safe drinking water and 15% have access to improved sanitation services. Slum dwelling is a major issue. By 2020 they would like to help 100 mill of those living in slums.

Global Partnership: Goals: to decline poverty develp an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discrimenatory trading and financial systems, Address the special needs of the least developed countries, deal comprhesively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures. Believe poverty is not just economic but environmental, educational, cultural, and health related living. 1/6 people live on less than $2 a day in Latin America. Number of water polution areas has been reduced, more land has been covered in forests, that way it will help the environment.

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