Millennium Kids

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MILLENNIUM KIDS is a movement that inspires, educates and mobilizes youth to make positive change by raising awareness of the need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As the world’s most powerful leaders are gathering in Canada this June to discuss global progress on the MDGs, we are reminded that a surge of momentum is needed to fulfill our commitment by 2015.

We are in dialogue with world-renowned artists, athletes and advocates to join hands with the Millennium Kids and youth of all ages to garner the attention of the world, sharing ideas for change through story, multi-media, music and drama.

Millennium Kids are children born in the year 2000, the same year 192 countries signed a global pledge at the United Nations to spare no effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The Millennium Kids are now 10 years old. Their lives provide a measuring stick for the progress of 192 nations in fulfilling the commitments made to the MDGs.

Over the next five years, through social networking, school programs and events, the World Heritage Project will encourage youth to raise their voices to bring the change needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Create a global partnership for development

For more information, please contact sara@millenniumkids.ca