Projects in Conjunction with The United Nations Millennium Campaign
At the 2000 Millennium Summit, world leaders from rich and poor countries committed themselves – at the highest political level – to a set of eight time-bound targets that when achieved will end extreme poverty by the year 2015. The United Nations Millennium Campaign supports and inspires people from around the world to take action in support of the Millennium Development Goals.
The eight goals are:
Universal Education: Every human being should have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, too many children in the world today grow up without this chance, because they are denied their basic right to attend primary school. A sustainable end to world poverty as we know it, as well as the path to peace and security, requires that citizens in every country are empowered to make positive choices and provide for themselves and their families.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal.
In Haiti: Shipping a 40’ sea container with books, desks for teachers and school supplies
Providing a solar panel system to bring light and energy to the classrooms and in
turn provide additional time for education
Providing new black boards, desks and benches for students
Providing the Transfiguration School with its first computer and digital camera
Paying teacher’s salaries
Providing tutors for extra homework help
Providing transportation to school
Providing a flag pole and national flag for the school
Providing sports equipment
Training adults in the installation and maintenance of all our technical projects
In Zimbabwe: Providing school supplies and chairs for students
Providing age appropriate educational toys and sports equipment
Paying teacher’s salaries
Paying tuition for over 350 children to attend school
Environmental Sustainability: Reducing poverty and achieving sustained development must be done in conjunction with a healthy planet. The Millennium Goals recognize that environmental sustainability is part of global economic and social well-being. Unfortunately, exploitation of natural resources such as forest, land, water and fisheries—often by the powerful few-have caused alarming changes in our natural world in recent decades, often harming the most vulnerable people in the world who depend on natural resources for their livelihood.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Developing a gravity fed water system to be installed in 2011/2012
Providing portable water filtration systems
Developing a large water filtration system to benefit a whole community
Developing gardens for the growing of beans
Developing gardens for the growing of nutrients to feed rabbits for an animal breeding project
Providing 55 gal. drums for rain water collection
Maternal Health: Many people consider the day their child was born the happiest day in their life. In the world’s wealthier countries, it is. In poorer countries, the day a child is born is all too often the day its mother dies. The lifetime risk of pregnancy and childbirth in Africa is 1 in 22 while it is 1 in 120 in Asia and 1 in 7,300 in developed countries.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Providing pre-natal vitamins for 50 women currently in a Maternal Health Program
Providing “Bundles of Love” birthing kits to help mothers deliver babies at home
with sterile supplies
Providing maternity clothes for the comfort of women during pregnancy
Providing reusable menstrual pads and panties
Developing a program for the women to sew and sell reusable menstrual pads
Providing funding for a mobile clinic to visit our service areas quarterly
Shipping personal hygiene supplies
Providing first-aid supplies and medicine to a clinic
Providing emergency water purification tablets during the Cholera Epidemic
Child Health: One of the darkest characteristics of poverty is that is seems to prey on the vulnerable and defenseless. In low-income countries, one out of every 10 children dies before the age of five. In wealthier nations this number is only on out of 143.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Providing vitamins
Providing “Bundles of Joy” newborn baby kits
Providing clothes and shoes
Providing funding for a mobile clinic to visit our service areas quarterly and provide
immunizations and vaccinations
Providing personal hygiene supplies
Providing first-aid supplies and medicine to a clinic
Providing food and nutrition
Providing toys, art supplies and sports equipment to encourage healthy play and creativity
Providing portable water filtration systems
In Zimbabwe: Providing first-aid supplies and medicine to a clinic
Providing clothing
Providing personal hygiene supplies
Providing toys, art supplies and sports equipment to encourage healthy play and creativity
Providing food and nutrition
Providing portable water filtration systems
Gender Equality: Poverty has a woman’s face. Global prosperity and peace will only be achieved once all the world’s people are empowered to order their own lives and provide for themselves and their families. Societies where women are more equal stand a much greater chance of achieving the Millennium Goals by 2015. Every single goal is directly related to women’s rights and societies where women are not afforded equal rights as men can never achieve development in a sustainable manner.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Funding a women’s market project
In Zimbabwe: Funding a micro-loan project (2011/2012)
Funding training for home health care workers
Instituting a fair-trade project to purchase handicrafts in Zimbabwe and sell them in the USA
In Uganda: Instituting a fair-trade project to purchase handicrafts in Uganda from women
suffering from HIV/AIDS and sell them in the USA
Global Partnerships: the Millennium Goals represent a global partnership for development. The deal makes clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor countries to work towards achieving the first seven goals. They must do their part to ensure great accountability to citizens and efficient us of resources. But for poor countries to achieve the first seven goals, it is absolutely critical that rich countries deliver on their end of the bargain with more and more effective aid, more sustainable debt relief and fairer trade rules, well in advance of 2015.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Developing the “Empire Haiti Coalition” – a group of organizations, churches and
individuals who are currently working in Haiti – to come together and share
expertise, supplies, and energy to more efficiently develop projects in Haiti.
The eight goals are:
Universal Education: Every human being should have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, too many children in the world today grow up without this chance, because they are denied their basic right to attend primary school. A sustainable end to world poverty as we know it, as well as the path to peace and security, requires that citizens in every country are empowered to make positive choices and provide for themselves and their families.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal.
In Haiti: Shipping a 40’ sea container with books, desks for teachers and school supplies
Providing a solar panel system to bring light and energy to the classrooms and in
turn provide additional time for education
Providing new black boards, desks and benches for students
Providing the Transfiguration School with its first computer and digital camera
Paying teacher’s salaries
Providing tutors for extra homework help
Providing transportation to school
Providing a flag pole and national flag for the school
Providing sports equipment
Training adults in the installation and maintenance of all our technical projects
In Zimbabwe: Providing school supplies and chairs for students
Providing age appropriate educational toys and sports equipment
Paying teacher’s salaries
Paying tuition for over 350 children to attend school
Environmental Sustainability: Reducing poverty and achieving sustained development must be done in conjunction with a healthy planet. The Millennium Goals recognize that environmental sustainability is part of global economic and social well-being. Unfortunately, exploitation of natural resources such as forest, land, water and fisheries—often by the powerful few-have caused alarming changes in our natural world in recent decades, often harming the most vulnerable people in the world who depend on natural resources for their livelihood.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Developing a gravity fed water system to be installed in 2011/2012
Providing portable water filtration systems
Developing a large water filtration system to benefit a whole community
Developing gardens for the growing of beans
Developing gardens for the growing of nutrients to feed rabbits for an animal breeding project
Providing 55 gal. drums for rain water collection
Maternal Health: Many people consider the day their child was born the happiest day in their life. In the world’s wealthier countries, it is. In poorer countries, the day a child is born is all too often the day its mother dies. The lifetime risk of pregnancy and childbirth in Africa is 1 in 22 while it is 1 in 120 in Asia and 1 in 7,300 in developed countries.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Providing pre-natal vitamins for 50 women currently in a Maternal Health Program
Providing “Bundles of Love” birthing kits to help mothers deliver babies at home
with sterile supplies
Providing maternity clothes for the comfort of women during pregnancy
Providing reusable menstrual pads and panties
Developing a program for the women to sew and sell reusable menstrual pads
Providing funding for a mobile clinic to visit our service areas quarterly
Shipping personal hygiene supplies
Providing first-aid supplies and medicine to a clinic
Providing emergency water purification tablets during the Cholera Epidemic
Child Health: One of the darkest characteristics of poverty is that is seems to prey on the vulnerable and defenseless. In low-income countries, one out of every 10 children dies before the age of five. In wealthier nations this number is only on out of 143.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Providing vitamins
Providing “Bundles of Joy” newborn baby kits
Providing clothes and shoes
Providing funding for a mobile clinic to visit our service areas quarterly and provide
immunizations and vaccinations
Providing personal hygiene supplies
Providing first-aid supplies and medicine to a clinic
Providing food and nutrition
Providing toys, art supplies and sports equipment to encourage healthy play and creativity
Providing portable water filtration systems
In Zimbabwe: Providing first-aid supplies and medicine to a clinic
Providing clothing
Providing personal hygiene supplies
Providing toys, art supplies and sports equipment to encourage healthy play and creativity
Providing food and nutrition
Providing portable water filtration systems
Gender Equality: Poverty has a woman’s face. Global prosperity and peace will only be achieved once all the world’s people are empowered to order their own lives and provide for themselves and their families. Societies where women are more equal stand a much greater chance of achieving the Millennium Goals by 2015. Every single goal is directly related to women’s rights and societies where women are not afforded equal rights as men can never achieve development in a sustainable manner.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Funding a women’s market project
In Zimbabwe: Funding a micro-loan project (2011/2012)
Funding training for home health care workers
Instituting a fair-trade project to purchase handicrafts in Zimbabwe and sell them in the USA
In Uganda: Instituting a fair-trade project to purchase handicrafts in Uganda from women
suffering from HIV/AIDS and sell them in the USA
Global Partnerships: the Millennium Goals represent a global partnership for development. The deal makes clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor countries to work towards achieving the first seven goals. They must do their part to ensure great accountability to citizens and efficient us of resources. But for poor countries to achieve the first seven goals, it is absolutely critical that rich countries deliver on their end of the bargain with more and more effective aid, more sustainable debt relief and fairer trade rules, well in advance of 2015.
To Love a Child has responded to this goal:
In Haiti: Developing the “Empire Haiti Coalition” – a group of organizations, churches and
individuals who are currently working in Haiti – to come together and share
expertise, supplies, and energy to more efficiently develop projects in Haiti.
