RISE-UP! To End Poverty
RISE-UP To End Poverty is a nation-wide online campaign run by the International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF). The campaign aims to raise awareness about global poverty as well as to raise funds for 8 IDRF projects. The campaign is aligned with the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which like IDRF, seek to reduce extreme hunger and poverty, child mortality rates, disease epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, and aim to promote universal primary education, gender equality, environmental sustainability, and a global partnership for development.
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Kids Helping Kids
The Kids Helping Kids program aims to educate youth on various humanitarian issues and to teach them how to give back to their local and global community. Parents can make use of educational resources available online to teach their children about the Millennium Development Goals. Kids participating in the program will raise funds for First Nations children in Canada and for school children in Pakistan. Register your child online today and he or she will receive a free fundraising kit and a chance to win numerous prizes. Children will receive a fundraising certificate upon completion, and top achievers will be honoured at IDRF’s Annual Gala.
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About IDRF
IDRF (International Development and Relief Foundation) is a registered Canadian non-profit organization, dedicated to empowering the disadvantaged people of the world through emergency relief and participatory development programs based on the Islamic principles of human dignity, self-reliance and social justice.
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Project Descriptions – A Look At Your Beneficiaries
All funds raised for the RISE-UP! To End Poverty campaign will benefit 8 IDRF development and relief projects around the world. Each selected project correlates with a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to show how IDRF and its supporters are also striving to take action to eradicate poverty. IDRF works in partnerships with International NGOs and grassroots organizations to implement projects that are culturally sensitive and projects that create a foundation for long-term sustainability.
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The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Written By: Alexandra Service
The Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, are a set of 8 overarching targets agreed upon by the United Nations member states and many different international organizations during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. These targets aim, through various measures, to improve the well-being of those living in conditions of poverty, inequality and illness over the coming decade. The goals include: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability; and creating a global partnership for development.
The MDGs represent one of the first attempts to bring the entire world together in an effort to help all of humanity. Nearly every government, in both the developed and developing worlds, has made at least some commitment to achieving these 8 goals. Though we are still a long way from reaching all 8 targets, the MDGs symbolize an important step toward creating a peaceful and just society.
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