What One Can Do...
Audio and Video MDG resources
(streaming and downloadable)
If you're looking for powerpoints, go to our powerpoint page.
These resources can be excellent additions to your MDG presentations or sermons ... or embedded in your website or blog ... or used in lots of other creative ways! Got a video or a link to a video that you think should be on here? Send it to us!
For a great selection of streaming videos on the MDGs, check out and join EGR's YouTube group.
You might have heard about PlayPumps ... http://tinyurl.com/2vc4vh ... the organization that makes children's merry-go-rounds that act as pumps for wells to pump clean, safe water.
Ann Fontaine shares this YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWz64540V2s
from St. John's Episcopal Church in Powell, WY, which is raising funds for a PlayPump.
I share this not just because it's a good organization ... but as a reminder that even a simple slideshow on YouTube is a great publicity/fundraiser for your MDG project!
Check out the EGR YouTube group for other great videos.
From the Rev Rich Nelson, an YouTube video from their recent Diocesan Convention. Also included are handouts you are also linked below
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffh8z3u-Xa4
Videos from Official MDG Campaigns
Make Poverty History Videos -- 10 great videos at both 56K and broadband speeds.
The ONE Campaign's YouTube group - a mix of TV spots and live videos
ONE VOTE '08's YouTube group - people like you holding the candidates' feet to the fire on the MDGs
The Millennium Campaign -- videos made for the summer 2007 G8 summit. Also check out MC's YouTube group.
The Micah Challenge - "Grace" video.
MDG/Global Poverty Music Videos
Sarah McLachlan's World on Fire - Click here for streaming video. Click here to download file for RealPlayer. (and click here to download RealPlayer)
Achieving the MDGs by Christian Picciolini -- English Version Spanish Version
MDG-related DVDs
The Girl in the Cafe - 95 min. From HBO films. Great romantic comedy/drama set at a G8 summit with the MDGs as the subtext. Bill Nighy. Kelly McDonald.
The Millennium Goals: Dream or Reality -- 27 min. From Bullfrog Films. Explores the ambition and scope of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and the obstacles to their achievement.
A Closer Walk - 80 min. "The first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of Reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A Closer Walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS." Narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith.
Living With Slim - 28 min. "In many African countries, HIV/AIDS is called “Slim.” In this film, seven African children, ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, talk about what it’s like to be HIV positive. Of the seven children, four are girls and three are boys. Three of the children have lost both parents and three have lost one parent to AIDS."
Through A Child's Eyes: Views of Global Poverty - "Most elementary-age children exude innocence and optimism. What about kids who face extreme poverty? This documentary focuses on the plight of underprivileged nine-year-olds across the world—revealing their hardships and challenges as well as the light-hearted spirit they often exhibit in spite of their surroundings. Traveling to Egypt, Rwanda, India, Cambodia, Romania, Brazil, and New York City, the film presents a case study of a child in each location through compelling interviews, tours of struggling schools, and visits to barely livable homes. In every segment, the most illuminating moment follows the question, “What would you do if you had a lot of money?” (55 minutes)"
The Haiti Partnership - 25 min. Recommended by Evelyn Piety (W. Tennessee), who says "It is moving, inspiring, eye-opening, etc. Besides testimonials from members of the partnership who have been on mission trips to Haiti, as well as from Bishop Johnson, much of the video was filmed in Haiti and shows what it's like to live in what amounts to a landfill (without the bulldozers to come around and tidy it up) in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere where most people get to eat only one meal - every other day - and where life itself is a luxury. This video is professionally produced and is incredibly powerful. The DVD is available for a $25 donation, with the money going toward clean water projects. It can be ordered from: Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Attn: Rev. Joe Porter, 1720 Peabody Ave., Memphis, TN 38104
MDG-related Audio Programs
Africa: "Portraits of Poverty" series - The ELCA has put together a great site that includes links to these six excellent radio programs aired on National Public Radio (NPR) in 2006, and each show targets one aspect of poverty in Africa. Around each eight-to-ten-minute audio experience, they’ve wrapped some helps for hunger leaders: study, discussion, sharing and action suggestions, relevant links, and additional encouragement for your work in combating hunger.
MDG-related PowerPoints
Some of the PowerPoint Presentations will require you to have Powerpoint or Powerpoint Viewer on your computer. If you do not, You can click below to be taken to the PowerPoint Viewer download page. It is small file (1.9 MB).
Click here for the Powerpoint Viewer Download Page
Note: If you have any difficulty opening one of these files, please e-mail Bill Monk
He can e-mail you the requested file. Also if you would like the presentation as a video instead of a Powerpoint, please let him know as well.
EGR Standard MDG Powerpoint - The presentation EGR executive director Mike Kinman uses for workshops, presentations, etc. Script embedded in the slides.
If I had $1,000,000 - The preamble to the Standard MDG Powerpoint. A short video set to the Barenaked Ladies tune highlighting how much money Americans spend on various things annually contrasted with how that money could be used for the MDGs. The song needs to be purchased online and attached yourself.
MDG Presentation B - MDG powerpoint developed by Ann Finch of St. James Episcopal Church in Potomac, MD, script embedded in slides.
MDG Presentation on the Tsunami
MDG 0.7% campaign - province 6.ppt
