The Millennium Development Goals

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 1: Reduce by half the number who struggle daily for survival.

The facts:

• Some 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day.
• There are 963 million undernourished people in the world today. The majority of these are women and children.
• Every three seconds, a child dies because of extreme poverty and disease.

Extreme poverty exacts a devastating toll on the children of the world, and hunger is for many a daily reality. Half of all childhood deaths can be tracked to a lack of food and malnutrition. For this reason, much of World Vision’s work focuses on reducing chronic malnutrition and ensuring that families and communities can provide for their needs.

How World Vision tackles hunger and extreme poverty

Nutrition education: World Vision trains parents in the importance of feeding their children food that contains essential nutrients such as vitamins A and C.

Agricultural assistance: World Vision provides farmers with seeds and tools for raising crops and livestock.

Agricultural training: We teach farmers improved agricultural techniques such as crop rotation, drip irrigation, and the planting of trees that will enrich over-worked soil.

Improved product storage: World Vision helps communities protect their available food resources with new storage techniques. In Mali, for example, we built granaries that decreased the annual food storage loss from 30 percent to 3 percent.

Marketing assistance: By identifying and providing resources for marketable products, World Vision helps farmers earn a stable income for their families. For example, we helped Brazilian farmers cultivate and market a crop of organic peppers when environmental changes made it impossible to grow their former crops.

Feeding centers: Following a natural disaster or refugee crisis, World Vision establishes emergency feeding clinics and often provides supplemental food until the next harvest.

Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger		Achieve universal primary education		Promote gender equality & the empowerment of women		Reduce child mortality
Reduce maternal mortality		Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases		Ensure environmental sustainability		Develop a global partnership for development

Learn more

• Study the Bible to learn what it says about the poor.