Meeting Millennium Development Goals

The eight MDGs are:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality & empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development.

SSB addresses them all to some degree:

• A stable home with healthy people supports horticulture, agriculture and stable jobs.
• Healthy comfortable workplaces support a stable community.
• Light enables children to study in the hours of darkness.
• Clean cooking facilities substantially mitigates home pollution.
• Water purification reduces disease.
• Water recycling reduces the frequency of water collection.
• Fridges reduce food and medicine waste.
• Power for communications and laptops aid learning and, with Internet links, transform communication.
• Using SSB practices ensures environmental sustainability.
• The SSB Challenge will create a global network.