All the World Issue Date: 1 October 2006
October - December 2006
Vol 44 No 4 Editorial: The Possible Dreams; Millennium Development Goals: Beyond the Goals; Goal 1: Fighting Poverty and Hunger – A Pig Issue; Goal 2: Education – Breaking the Poverty Cycle; Goal 3: Self-help Groups Give Women Hope; Goals 4&5: Healthy Mother, Healthy Child; Goal 6: The Fight for LifeGoal 7: What a Difference Water Makes; Goal 8: From Brass Bands to White Bands |
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In this issue:
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Editorial: The Possible Dreams
 The Salvation Army recognises that the Millennium Development Goals reflect some of what it, as a movement, has been striving towards for much of its 140-year existencemore |
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Beyond the Goals
 The Salvation Army is doing its bit towards achieving the eight MDGsmore |
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Fighting Poverty and Hunger – A Pig Issue
 The Salvation Army’s development projects seek to provide assistance to help people get themselves out of poverty and ensure they can obtain the food they need to survivemore |
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Education – Breaking the Poverty Cycle
 Education can be the breaking point out of the poverty cyclemore |
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Self-help Groups Give Women Hope
 Women can meet, share their experiences, discuss their problems and support one anothermore |
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Healthy Mother, Healthy Child
 For more than 50 years Salvation Army clinics in Ghana have provided medical help to see expectant mothers through their pregnancies before offering a safe and hygienic place in which they can give birth and get the medical help they needmore |
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The Fight for Life
 In Africa, Asia, countries bordering the Pacific and Europe, The Salvation Army addresses health issues through 31 hospitals, 105 clinics and hundreds of community and corps (church) health programmes. These numbers are large enough but they don’t even begin to show the many people who are involved. more |
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What a Difference Water Makes
 The ‘living water’ project aims to improve the health of the people in the Tarime and Serengeti districts in the Mara region of Tanzania through a supply of clean and safe water, and by increasing the expertise within Tanzania in water-related activitiesmore |
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From Brass Bands to White Bands
 The Salvation Army in The Netherlands is looking to use its own members and the Movement’s international links to raise awareness, influence policy makers and make poverty historymore |
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