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In Micah Challenge the Body of Christ is finding its voice as a global constituency for poor and marginalized people. In this area you can explore more deeply the thinking and strategy behind our approach to achieving the aims of the campaign.
Micah Challenge aims to biblically motivate and empower Christians to use the levers of democracy to influence their national governments to implement policies and budgets that will achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
We seek to transform the relationship between Christians in the Global North and South so that there is genuine partnership and Christians everywhere work as agents of hope for and with the poor. The Micah Challange campaign is not only a call on others to take action. It calls on us to take action ourselves and to grow in our understanding of what God requires of us.
At the Millennium Summit of 2000, leaders of all 189 United Nations Member Nations pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. These 8 goals address critical poverty issues including hunger, child and maternal health, gender equality, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDs, aid, trade and debt. Micah Challenge aims to influence international and national decision-makers of both rich and poor nations to fulfil their public promise to achieve the MDGs and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015.
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