Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) encapsulate the development aspirations of the world as a whole and are an expression of universally accepted human values such as freedom from hunger and want. Meleya contributes to three MDGs. It helps to end poverty and hunger and to diminish the number of people living on less than one dollar per day by offering a fair price to coffee-growers in Ethiopia (MDG 1). It helps to increase environmental sustainability by focussing on organically grown coffee beans (MDG 7). And it stimulates partnerships between students, coffee-growers and entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and the Netherlands (MDG 8).
FORMER UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN
'We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals – worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries – but only if we break with business as usual. We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. It takes time to train the teachers, nurses and engineers; to build the roads, schools and hospitals; to grow the small and large businesses able to create the jobs and income needed. So we must start now. And we must more than double global development assistance over the next few years. Nothing less will help to achieve the Goals.'
UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON
'There cannot be a sustainable development in the developing countries without very strong support on trade, because trade can of course bring prosperity and jobs and also can give to the states the means they need in order to bring the basic services to the people.'
DUTCH DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION MINISTER BERT KOENDERS
'The Netherlands fight poverty especially by stimulating trade opportunities. It is no longer aid or trade but aid for trade.'
