8 Goals for Africa (Music video)

The music video 8 Goals for Africa unites Africa's best known musicians to bring voice to an awareness-raising campaign that calls for commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — a set of eight internationally-agreed goals designed to reduce poverty, hunger, disease, and maternal and child deaths by 2015. As part of the campaign, developed by the United Nations System in Africa, the music video will be screened throughout the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa across all the fan parks and public viewing areas.

The music video features Yvonne Chaka Chaka from South Africa, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo from Benin, Oliver Mtukudzi from Zimbabwe, Eric Wainaina from Kenya, Baaba Maal from Senegal, and the Soweto Gospel Choir from South Africa. World renowned jazz musicians Hugh Masekela and Jimmy Dludlu from South Africa are instrumentalists on the track, produced by Arthur Baker from the United States of America.

UNIFEM is one of a number of UN agencies charged with supporting countries in moving forward on the MDGs. The eight goals, adopted by the international community in 2000, set targets for 2015 on eradicating poverty, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV and AIDS and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and providing financing for development. All eight MDGs touch essential aspects of women's well-being, and in turn, women's empowerment is critical for achieving the goals.

The song and music video are available free of charge at the 8 Goals for Africa website.

8 Goals for Africa website:
http://www.8goalsforafrica.org/

MDGs website:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

(Publishers: UNDP, UN Action; Release Date: 14 May 2010)

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