The UN in Myanmar is stepping up efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Maria Mchele is a mother and farmer in Tanzania who relies on farming for food and income. Through a local agricultural program, Maria learned about a new crop of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, specifically bred to thrive in sub-Saharan Africa. They taught her about soil irrigation, crop multiplication, and how to get her crops to market. She is now a leader in her farming group and teaches others what she’s learned. Learn how investments in programs like this have helped farmers increase their incomes by up to 400%.

Part of ONE’s Living Proof campaign

Climate change affects all of us women, men and children. Whether its reduced rainfall in Australia and Uganda, increasingly severe cyclones in Bangladesh, or sea level rise and storm surges in the Pacific, we are all starting to feel the impact of climate change.

The challenges we face from climate change are so big, you could be forgiven for not knowing quite where to start. That is until now.

This video was edited for release around the UN DPI conference on Global Health, held in Melbourne Australia, August 2010.

The annual monsoon rains in Bangladesh are getting heavier and more unpredictable — last year’s floods were the worst in decades, affecting nine million people — but few people can have encountered a force of nature quite like Sahena Begum.

Fiercely determined, she is spearheading community efforts to deal with changing weather in Kunderpara village.

This video was edited for release around the UN DPI conference on Global Health, held in Melbourne Australia, August 2010.

The weather has never been perfectly predictable in Uganda — no more than it is anywhere else — but in the last few years it has become more and more unreliable, making life increasingly precarious for communities, like Martina Longom’s, who rely on farming to survive.

“For the last three years the rain was late,” Martina explains. “In two of them there wasn’t enough rain for the sorghum [a local crop] to grow.”

This video was edited for release around the UN DPI conference on Global Health, held in Melbourne Australia, August 2010.

From 17-19 September 2010, millions of people around the globe Stood Up, Took Action and Made A Noise for the MDGs. This is the world’s largest mobilisation seeking to end global poverty, address its causes and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In Sydney, the Minning Minni Kaiwarine Indigenous Family Dance group performed at First Fleet Park alongside the In Rhythm drummers, and the noise could be heard streets away.

Video: Ally Kvisle
Music: Blue King Brown – ‘Stand Up’

To coincide with the Melbourne UN DPI conference on global health being held in Melbourne during August, Make Poverty History distributed 50,000 copies of a free newspaper to commuters.

EMC (Every Minute Counts) is a tabloid style free newspaper aimed at making the issues surrounding poverty and development accessible to everyone. Whether your interest is in news, celebrities or the astrological form of the stars, there is something for everyone in EMC.

Check out the video of how we went about this campaign or read some of the articles online.

Big thanks to Marty Smiley and Adam Anderson from YoungBlood Productions for putting together this video!

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