The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest people. Unlike the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which apply to all countries whether rich, middle or poor countries; Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets only the developing countries. To meet these goals, leaders of 189 countries signed the historic millennium declaration at the United Nations Millennium Summit in the year 2000. 

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The eight Millennium Development Goals are: 
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women 
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health 
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

 

PBT contributes towards 7 out of the total 8 MDGs and here is a brief synopsis on the activities undertaken by PBT in conjunction with the Millennium Development Goals.

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1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger - Admitting students from the most downtrodden sector of the society, and giving them the best of academics, environment, infrastructure, pedagogy, co-curricular activities, without any discrimination based on caste, religion, language, gender or nationality, the Trust helps in rescuing children from the vicious cycle of poverty, inequality and social exclusion. 
 

PBT’s contribution towards alleviating the hunger of a child by partnering with the Annapoorna Morning Nutrition programme which provides free breakfast to about 500,000 children in 22 States and 3 Union Territories of India and few other developing countries as well, shows PBT’s passion towards the overall well-being of the child, where both the hunger of the brain and the belly of the child is paid equal attention to. So far, PBT has supported the nutrition needs of 7,000 children for a year during the past years.  
 

2. Promote gender equality and empower women - The Trust operates 7 Campuses for the girls from Grade 6 till Doctoral studies by offering quality and holistic education completely free of cost. The Campuses also provide various opportunities for the young girls to explore their talent like music and fine arts, music, dance and theatre, indoor and outdoor sports, adventure sports…etc. Most of these girls are first generation literates in their family, who see their teachers as the first literate beings in their circle of living.  
 

3. Reduce child mortality – PBT supports the cause of promoting child health and reducing child mortality by partnering with its allied Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust that has set up Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Child Heart Care Hospitals, which perform heart care treatment for children, not only from India but 14 other countries as well, absolutely free of cost. So far, PBT has contributed towards 700 paediatric cardiac surgeries, out of the 20,000 surgeries that have taken place from the year 2012. The Trust in conjunction with the Sri Sathya Sai Sarla Memorial Hospital extends healthcare services including General Medicine, Gynaecology, Dentistry, ENT, Ophthalmology, Neurology…etc. for the school children of Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Gurukulam and also other government school-going children.