The Millennium Development Goals are the outcome of a United Nations General Assembly resolution in September 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration.

The Millennium Development Goals reflect a commitment to the belief that ‘eradicating extreme poverty continues to be one of the main challenges of our time’ (United Nations Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon).

There are eight Millennium Developments Goals that the international community has committed to achieving by 2015.

The Millennium Development Goals are of paramount importance. As the UN Millennium Project commented in 2005, they are ‘too important to fail’. They are the ‘most broadly supported, comprehensive, and specific poverty reduction targets the world has ever established.’ They hold the key to the international community ‘addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions’ and promoting ‘basic human rights’.

40K and the Millennium Development Goals

The 40K Foundation Australia is fully supportive of the Millennium Development Goals. We believe that our work contributes to the fulfilment of a number of the Millennium Development Goals.

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

We believe that bridging schools play a pivotal role in achieving universal primary education by 2015. 40K’s bridging school provides children who are beyond school-starting age with a second chance to enter mainstream education. They are children who have not have the opportunity to go to school because of the circumstances of the community that they were born into. 40K truly believes that these children deserve to have access to an primary school education.

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

40K is dedicated to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in the services that it provides to Indian communities.

GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

40K is committed to ensuring environmental sustainability. This commitment is reflected in the ecologically sustainable nature of our bridging school. The bridging school is being constructed and operated with ecologically sustainable practices such as the use of thermal mud bricks, arch-panel technology, grey-water harvesting and solar power

GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

With our corporate sponsors, we also believe that we are playing a part in the creation of a global partnership for development. With the support of our partners such as Assetz, Freehils, BP Tata and the University of Technology Sydney, 40K is working to reduce poverty in the developing world.