THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Originally published April 2, 2009

I’m currently on my way back to Malta after spending a couple of weeks on assignment in Uganda, working on a series of photo essays and features dealing with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by 189 nations at the UN Millenniun Summit in 2000.

Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop and global partnership for development

I’ll be showing plenty of pictures here of course, but not before the features appear in The Times over the coming days (not sure when the series will start yet) – suffice to say I’m really excited by the images I’ve got.

I joined up with an SOS Malta led mission, called MEDIP, to the country, meant to sensitise the media, and hence the general public, to the MDGs. So my thanks are due to them for allowing me to essentially gatecrash the whole thing and make the trip too, even though it was only meant for TV stations from the new EU member states.