MDG Campaigns

For countless children and teenagers around the world football is more than just a game. It helps build relationships, it often allows children to overcome trauma by having fun and it's a way to ensure they grow up healthy, and full of self-esteem. Find out more.

Five African countries will take part in this year’s World Cup, including Angola where CAFOD are kick-starting a new fundraising initiative.

Nepalese families in remote mountainous areas of the country are now using simple, inexpensive and environmentally friendly gravity ropeways to get their crops to market. Find out more.

The Republic of Congo has qualified for the international debt relief scheme, which should lead to full cancellation of World Bank and IMF debts. But, it must first comply with many conditions, including some which may harm the poor. Find out more about the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

At least 15 million more teachers are needed to enable every child to be able to go to primary school. There are simply not enough teachers to ensure that every child can get a quality education. Find out what Plan UK are doing to help.

Tesco now controls 30% of the grocery market in the UK. In 2005, the supermarket chain announced over £2 billion in profits. Growing evidence indicates that Tesco's success is partly based on trading practices that are having serious consequences for suppliers, farmers, overseas workers, local shops and the environment. Find out more.

Every day more than 4,000 men, women and children in the world’s poorest countries die from lethal levels of smoke in their homes. Smoke from cooking fires causes 1.6 million deaths a year, more than malaria. Join Practical Action’s campaign for urgent action to stop the killer in the kitchen.

Sign up and show your support for children living with HIV or those who have lost parents and friends through AIDS-related illness. Back UNICEF's campaign to provide drug treatment, protection and prevention for children affected by the epidemic.

How would you manage the essentials in life if you had no birth certificate? 40 million children in developing countries have no identity due to shortcomings in basic public services. Join the campaign for universal birth registration.

The government seems obsessed with targeting aid to support privatisation of water services in poor countries. This campaign draws attention to the overwhelming evidence that water privatisation doesn't work.

An interactive game from ActionAid to test the suspect commitment of the UK government to achieving targets for provision of HIV/AIDS drugs in 2005. Players are warned to avoid George Bush, patent lawyers, and fat cat pharmaceutical companies, sound advice indeed.

Have some fun with WaterAid's disgusting poo-shooting game and then remember that 2.6 billion people don't understand toilet jokes because they don't have one. Let's take action to enable everyone to enjoy Great British lavatory humour.

Kenyan children orphaned by AIDS © United Nations Children's Fund

HIV/AIDS is a global emergency claiming 8,000 lives a day in some of the poorest countries in the world. The Stop AIDS Campaign was set up by the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development to raise awareness and campaign for international action.