UN Milennium Project and Jeffrey Sachs

I was reading through the January/February issue of "The Good Magazine" and was wonderfully struck by the opening article by Jeffrey Sachs, entitled: "The Obama Generation Takes the Helm."
I researched who Professor Sachs is and have to invite everyone to research this man and what he is doing. According to the article in Good, Prof. Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a special advisor to the UN's secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Wow.
I researched a bit his work as the director of the UN Millennium Project.
I have to say, the 8 goals listed are an idealist's greatest dream. I can see parallels to these goals as the same "goals" listed as Universal Human Rights in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the case that you did not or cannot link to the UN Millennium Project page, I have copied in the 8 goals of the Project here:


What they are

At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015, that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals and the introduction to the goals (MDGs) Source: UN Millennium Project Webpage.

"The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions-income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion-while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights-the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter, and security.

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development"

The organization of the Project is broken up into 10 "thematic Task Forces" with a work force of more than 250 experts from around the world. Their goal is to dramatically reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
Spread the word and educate yourself.