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Millennium Development Goals competition - win free resources!
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> About the Millennium Development Goals
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The Millennium Development Goals – your pupils’ chance to have their say!
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are international targets for reducing poverty. World leaders have pledged to achieve these targets by 2015. On 7 July 2007 they should be half way there. But there is still a lot to be done.
To mark the mid-point, Oxfam are giving away free sets of our MDGs posters to display in your classroom. Our new competition also gives your pupils the chance to win some exciting prizes – including the opportunity to have their work displayed on Cool Planet, a visit to Oxfam House, and free books!
To enter, simply work with your class to design a poster about the MDGs. By entering, students get to have their say about the importance of overcoming poverty. They can also explore important global issues such as the right to education, the fight against malaria, HIV, and AIDS, and the need to protect our environment.
The MDGs aim to:
> Goal 1: Reduce poverty
> Goal 2: Educate every child
> Goal 3: Provide equal chances for girls and women
> Goal 4: Reduce the numbers of babies and children who die
> Goal 5: Ensure safe and healthy motherhood
> Goal 6: Fight infectious diseases
> Goal 7: Clean up the environment
> Goal 8: Share responsibility for making the world a better place
Entry details
The deadline for entries is 2 July 2007. The competition is open to pupils of any age. Two winners will be chosen - one from a Primary school and another from a Secondary school. Each school that enters will receive a free set of our MDGs posters to display, and each winner will get:
- Their poster displayed on Oxfam’s Cool Planet website
- A copy of ‘South and North, East and West: The Oxfam Book of Children’s Stories’ (for the Primary winner) or ‘The State of the World Atlas, 2007’ (for the Secondary winner)
- A copy of 'Change the World in Eight Steps' - Oxfam's MDGs teaching pack - for their school
- The chance to come to Oxfam GB's head office in Oxford to meet the people responsible for putting pressure on governments to deliver the MDGs. They will also get to see their poster displayed in our offices.
You can send as many posters as your class produces. Please ask your pupils to write their name, age, and the name of your school on the back of their poster. Unfortunately we are unable to return posters to senders.
Entries should be sent to the following address, with the name and address of your school, the ages of the students, and the adult contact at the school:
MDGs competition
Oxfam Development Education
Oxfam House
John Smith Drive
Cowley
Oxford
OX4 2JY
You can also email your entries or queries to coolplanet@oxfam.org.uk
Terms and conditions
Ideas for inspiration
The posters from our own poster pack might give you inspiration. Activities and background information are also available for each poster, which might give you further ideas. The following statistics might also help develop your pupils’ thinking.
Goal 4: World water facts
| ‘If everyone had access to clean water, much of the disease in the world could be prevented. Every day about 25,000 people die from diseases like diarrhoea which are carried by dirty water. It is much more difficult to stay clean and healthy when safe water is scarce and has been carried over long distances.’ (Primary Topic Posters: Water, Oxfam, 1998) |
| ‘Diarrhoea kills 1.8 million children under five every year, but most cases could easily be prevented or treated’ |
| ‘A Masai person in Kenya uses ten litres of water a day. An American in Los Angeles uses 500 litres of water a day’. (H2knOw – Live Differently, Christian Aid 2005) |
| ‘Scarce or polluted water supplies and lack of sanitation are responsible for more than ten million deaths each year.’ (State of the World, Worldwatch, 2002) |
Goal 5: The cost of childhood
| Every year 500,000 women die worldwide from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. 495,000 of them live in developing countries. |
| In Ethiopia, 1 in 14 women die of complications or illnesses during pregnancy and childbirth. In the UK, only 1 in 5,800 women die for this reason. |
| In 2000, world leaders pledged to change this situation by 2015 by achieving Millennium Development Goal 5, ‘Improve maternal health’. |
Goal 9: Facts about debt and poverty
| Some people are very poor. 1.3 billion of the world’s people live on less that 60p a day. |
| Poor countries spend more repaying their debts than they receive in aid. In 2002, poor countries paid rich countries 21 billion pounds in debt repayments. They received only 9 billion pounds in aid. |
| Africa gets £25 million each day in aid. Africa pays £26.5 million each day in debt repayments. |
| Some countries, such as Zambia, spend more on debt and interest repayments than they do on education. |
| Debt relief works. Tanzania was let off some of its debts. The Government spent money on making primary education free. (Parents used to have to pay fees.) Now two million more Tanzanian children can go to school. |
| Is it fair to ask poor countries to pay back their debts and the interest on them? |
> Find out more about the MDGs
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