Global Leaders Called on to Accelerate Action to Improve Children's Health and Education

Jessica Maw, September 25th 2008, 8:45pm

The children’s charity Save the Children called for an increase in pace in action trying to prevent millions of deaths and reaching more children who are still missing out on education. Progress has been made since 2000 when the Millennium Development Goals were created but not enough progression has occurred to meet these goals by 2015.

Save the Children has recognized that the world leaders have made commitments that have changed millions of children’s lives around the world but millions of children have not yet seen any benefits from these Millennium Development Goals which is why they are asking global leaders to act faster.

The facts and figures show that these goals have improved the conditions but at the same time show that improvements need to continue. Since the goals were created in 2000, 41 million more children are in school but at the same time more than 72 million have still not received any education. The goal to decrease the infant mortality rate shows that over the past two decades there has been a 27% decline in infant deaths.

Save the Children has recommended three steps which the global leaders should take to get the goals back on track with a chance of meeting them by 2015. These three steps are: increasing resources for education in fragile states; designing health care programs to better target the poorest and most marginalized mothers and children; and establishing policies that prioritize education in humanitarian emergencies.

This article states and shows how these Millennium Development Goals have benefited the world but also how improvements need to continue to better the world population.

http://www.savethechildren.org/newsroom/2008/leaders-accelerate-action.html