Contact Your Legislator

In order to bring about systemic change, we must voice our support for the completion of the MGDs to our local legislators, who will bring our united voice to Congress.  You can write, call, email or even visit your federal representative(s).  Find out who represents you in the U.S. Congress and to obtain his/her contact information.

Start a Hub

As the Point7Now! efforts have grown into the Interfaith MDGs Coalition, individuals around the country have established their own local coalitions either through their faith community or local community.  You can start an interfaith hub in your area.  Through this hub you can continue to spread the awareness about global poverty, and work with others to end extreme poverty by 2015.

Interfaith Statement to End Global Poverty

The World Bank estimates that 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty. These people get by on less than $1.25 per day.¹ This means they cannot meet basic needs for survival. They are chronically hungry; unable to get health care, lack safe drinking water and sanitation, cannot afford rudimentary shelter and basic articles of clothing. This is poverty that kills. According to Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, an estimated eight to ten million people die each year as the world does too little to help them stay alive. UNICEF reports that more than 26,000 children under the age of five die around the world each day, mostly from preventable causes. More

1: On August 26, 2008, because of rising food and fuel prices, the World Bank released a new poverty line at US$1.25 per day, and estimates 1.4 billion people living below it.