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“Before I started coming to RESULTS meetings I used to feel powerless to do anything about world poverty. It was all too much. RESULTS teases out the threads so that I can do something. So much more effective than sitting and complaining to my husband!”
Grassroots activist, Poole
Did You Know?
In a world economy of 25 trillion dollars: half the global population survive on under $2 a day.
Campaigning to end poverty
There is no quick-fix solution to ending world hunger and poverty as the issues involved are both complex and tenacious. RESULTS firmly believes in the need for a holistic approach to development, one that takes into consideration the multitude of factors that contribute to and sustain world poverty and deprivation.
As a relatively small organisation we try to focus our attention and resources on areas and issues where we feel that we can make the biggest impact. In recent years we have campaigned mainly on global health issues (with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria), basic education, microfinance and sanitation.
Many of our campaigns aim to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular the following:
- Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target: to halve the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day by 2015. - Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target: by 2015 to ensure that all boys and girls are able to complete primary school. - Goal 6: Combat HIV, AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target: by 2015 to have halted and began to reverse the incidence of TB and malaria. - Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Target: by 2015 to have halved the number of people living without access to adequate sanitation
Global health
The economic and social consequences of diseases of poverty are devastating. Three diseases alone - AIDS, TB and malaria - are responsible for more than six million preventable deaths each year.
More information on Global health
Basic education
Reading and writing are basic skills in today’s world, yet one in five of the world’s adult population are illiterate. Primary education is key to reducing poverty; the resources needed must be made available.
More information on Basic education
Microfinance
Our aim is to ensure that 175 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, have access to credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2015.
More information on Microfinance
Sanitation
Sanitation has been described as a 'silent humanitarian crisis' and with 2.6 billion people thought to lack adequate sanitation it is easy to see why.
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