A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but starting now we can march a thousand days forward into a new future.
On April 5, the world reached a vital moment in history's largest and most successful anti-poverty push — the 1,000-day mark before the target date to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
These eight concrete goals were set in the year 2000, when more leaders than ever before gathered at the United Nations and agreed to cut global poverty and hunger by half, fight climate change and disease, tackle unsafe water and sanitation, expand education and open doors of opportunity for girls and women.
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