Eradicate 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 Environmental sustainability Build a global partnership for development

Ideas of Activities to Champion the Millennium Development Goals on Campus

On our Campaign’s action days, on other important national or international days, when you sense a window of opportunity on the political scene, media or during election campaigns, for example, you can:

  • Chalk your campus with the 8 Goals

  • Set up information kiosks at campus events
  • Organize a student debate on development issues related to the Goals
  • Organize a concert (to raise awareness and/or money)
  • Put educational, eye-catching posters around your school
  • Invite experts to speak with students about Goal-related issues
  • Host a fair trade fashion show
  • Organize peaceful marches or mass demonstrations
  • Create public symbols (like using a crowd of people to form a giant “0.7%”)
  • Tie white bands (white is the international symbol of the fight against poverty) in visible places or encircle a building with people in white

If you have organized a unique activity to champion the Millennium Development Goals or any related issue like human rigths, fair trade or global citizenship and want to share it with other students in Canada, please write to us at info@8goals.ca.

Photo from WUSC (University of Western Ontario)