Let's all worship the United Nations

(Millennium Development Goals Cross from here.)



Anglicat has this excellent post re: the "Stations of the Millennium Development Goals."

Some of the "stations" are just plain creepy. Like this one:

Station 5: Ask each pilgrim to write the name of every woman they know who gave birth during the past year. When the list is complete, draw a black cross next to the name of every 16th woman, symbolizing that one in 16 pregnant women die from childbirth complications in sub-Saharan Africa.

Charming. Let us celebrate those women we know who have given birth in the past year by imagining them dead.

Or how about this one:

Station 6: Using a white bed sheet and ink pad, have a pilgrim make a hand print every thirty seconds, symbolizing how many children are dying from malaria worldwide.

Just exactly how does this prevent a child from dying from malaria? All it does is make us feel good about feeling so bad that we put hand prints on a bed sheet. Hey, it is a lot of effort, ya know. Do you realize how hard it is to find a plain white bedsheet these days? But it's worth it, because now I am "aware".


The stuff that comes out of 815 is beyond parody.