The Millennium Development Goals

	Millennium Development Goals	Sisterhood Contribution
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day. Target 1b: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.	Compassion works tirelessly to assist sponsored children so that children of sponsored children do not need sponsorship themselves. Proven over 30 years of working in the developing world - sponsoring a child through compassion breaks the cycle of poverty in that generation. Compassion also provides food aid to struggling families of their sponsored children. Living Hope provides a program designed to assist HIV+ women from living in extreme poverty and suffering from hunger. It provides food, income support, skills training and life skills to break the cycle of poverty for these women and their children. Watoto through their homes and baby homes removes children from extreme poverty and provides for them in a holistic way ensuring their future is free from poverty and hunger. Vision Rescue is working with the street children of Mumbai, India to provide them with a nutritionally complete meal every day to stave off hunger and also provides non-formal education to allow them to break the cycle of poverty. Our work in building a kitchen for Vision Rescue is directly impacting this goal.
Achieve universal primary education	Achieve universal primary education Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling	Compassion provides assistance for sponsored children to attend school, through payment of school fees where required or uniforms, school supplies etc. All sponsored children attend primary school. Watoto provides holistic care for the children in their care including a very high standard of primary and secondary school with an emphasis on vocational training for students in secondary school to allow them to find work after leaving school. Vision Rescue provides non-formal primary education to the street children of Mumbai through their work on converted school buses. This allows children to transition to formal education or vocational training after primary school education has been completed. Vision Rescue also provide ongoing tutoring to assist children continuing in their formal education.
Promote gender equality and empower women	Promote gender equality and empower women Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.	Colour Conference exists to place value on womanhood, empowering them to reach their full potential. Colour Conference is run in Australia, the UK and Kiev however the message of the Sisterhood reaches far further into all corners of the world, empowering women to rise up and take their rightful place as a part of the solution to humanities problems. Living Hope is a program designed to empower women, through the program women are trained and empowered to change their lives, provided with the tools to assist them and the support to help them along the journey. Watoto has no distinction between boys and girls and ensures that the message of equality runs through their program including the signs posted all over their schools. Be Her Freedom in conjunction with A21 is placing value on women by providing a safe place of rescue for women trafficked into Greece. Restoring dignity and empowering them for their future. The Shine program has been running in many parts of the world for a number of years. It instills a message of value and equality.
Reduce child mortality	Reduce child mortality Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.	Compassion children are sponsored as early as 3 years old and given the right start in life with assistance through nutrition and medical help. Compassion also runs a vulnerable mothers project with provides nutrition and education to pregnant vulnerable women and their babies - giving them the best start in life. Baby Watoto is a beautiful home for rescued and abandoned babies in Kampala Uganda. They have state of the art facilities which provide a better level of care than the local hospitals can currently provide. These children are taken care of until they are old enough to be moved into a Watoto village with their new siblings and mother. Baby Watoto steps into the gap for these children that would otherwise be one of these statistics. Watoto are currently in the process of building two more babies homes at Suubi and in Gulu. Living Hope provides the best possible start for children born to HIV+ mothers. By providing ARVs to the mothers, not only does this lesson the risk of mother to child transmission through birth and breast feeding but it also keeps the mothers alive to raise their own children.
Improve maternal health	Improve maternal health Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health.	Compassion provides a program for vulnerable mothers assisting them with nutrition and education through pregnancy and early child hood, thus reducing the risk of maternal mortality as well as providing antenatal care to the women.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.	Living Hope is providing a new model of HIV care, through the local church distributing and managing ARV treatment it is allowing the vulnerable to access the treatment and also assisting the local health systems which are overloaded. Compassion provides treated bed nets to all of their sponsored children, providing a safe place for them to sleep which prevents the incidence of malaria. All Watoto children and their mothers sleep under treated bed nets preventing the incidence of malaria.
Ensure environmental sustainability	Ensure environmental sustainability Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply). By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers. Target 7a: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources Target 7b: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss	Watoto is working towards sustainability of its villages through farming to provide food in the villages and skills training which then provides the furniture and equipment required in the houses and schools. Vision Rescue works with the street children of Mumbai and is significantly improving the lives of these slum dwellers by providing food and non-formal education.
Develop a global partnership for development	Develop a global partnership for development	The Colour Sisterhood has committed to being a part of the solution to the problems of humanity and it seeks to partner with organisations around the globe who are providing real solutions to the many pressing needs around the world.