e of person that you¡¯re writing the letter to),Our country, along with almost every other country in the world, agreed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The Goals are a set of steps toward ending global poverty. Specically, once accomplished, the world will see: the amount of people living on less than a dollar a day cut in half, every single child completing at least a primary education, equal numbers of boys and girls in school everywhere in the world, two-thirds fewer children dying before theyreach the age of ve, 75% fewer women dying in childbirth, a reversal of the spread of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, 50% fewer people without sustained access to safe drinking water, and a cleaner and healthier environment for our children and grandchildren.The Goals are not too ambitious; the world has the resources and the know-how to achieve them. They are technically and nancially within our reach, but only if governments from both developed and developing countries take concrete and urgent action. Developing countries need to do more to achieve the rst seven Goals covering poverty, hunger, education, health, the environment and woman¡¯s rights. But they cannot achieve their rst seven Goals unless developed countries full their promises on Goal 8; give more and higher quality aid, increase trade opportunities for developing countries, and provide greater debt relief to struggling countries. Please help - take action today to support the Millennium Development Goals. Here are some examples of actions that you can take to make sure our government lives up to its promises to us - its citizens!
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