The primary objective of the event is to mobilize the public in the fight against poverty and to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to halve world poverty by 2015.

• 这个活动的主要目标是动员公众为反贫穷而奋斗，并推动“和谐发展计划”(MDG），该计划力求在2015年让世界贫困减半。