Let’s get to the point seven percent that was promised.
One billion people are living in extreme poverty on less than $1 a day.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
In 2000 world leaders adopted the
Millennium Development Goals and
promised to end extreme poverty by
2015.
8 goals were set:
Progress is being made on the MDGs:
Child malnutrition rates are declining.
AIDS deaths have begun to fall.
Debt cancellation
has helped.
1.6 billion people have gained
access to safe drinking water
since 1990.
1 billion still lack
safe sources of
water.
Climate change,
the food crisis and the
global economic crisis
threaten to reverse progress on the MDGs.
Rich countries have not kept their promises.
Canada is only 16th out of 22 donor
countries in aid as % of national income.
In 2007 we were only giving 0.28%
Population
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Canada,
with a population
of 33 million,
gives $ 3.9 billion
a year.
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20
15
10
5
0
Canada
Netherlands
Foreign Aid
7
Netherlands, with a
population of 16
million, gives $6.2
billion a year.
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2
1
0
Canada
Netherlands
Lester B. Pearson
proposed the 0.7%
aid target in 1969.
The United Nations set
the 0.7% of national
income aid target in 1970.
Canada promised to
meet this goal by 1975.
But Canada has
never delivered.
The closest Canada
has come was in 1987
when we gave 0.5%.
We now give about
0.3% or less than half
the 0.7% target.
In September 2010 world
leaders will gather at the
UN for a MDG Summit to
decide how to get
progress back on track to
achieve the 8 goals by the
2015 target date.
September 17, 18 and 19, 2010
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and help make a difference.