what opportunities exist for youth from different backgrounds to work together on the MDG campaign?
I would hope young people would first look at their own country and see what it is doing to achieve the MDGs. You can visit our web pages (www.millenniumcampaign.org and www.millenniumcampaign.org/youth) to find out how your country is doing. If you are from a rich country, make your government accountable to its promise to deliver on Goal 8, to give more and better quality aid, create more trade opportunities and give more debt relief to poor countries. Without the help of rich countries the global deal will fail and we will never reach the goals by 2015. If you are from a developing country you should investigate if and how your government has implemented the goals in its policy-level decisions. Has your government set up the framework to raise the poor out of poverty and hunger, get every child into school, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and ensure environmental sustainability? If not they’re not living up
