Millennium Villages Blog

About the Millennium Villages

The Millennium Villages project is a partnership between the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Programme. The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. With the help of new advances in science and technology, project personnel work with villages to create and facilitate sustainable, community-led action plans that are tailored to the villages’ specific needs and designed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Simple solutions like providing high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, drinking wells and materials to build school rooms and clinics are effectively combating extreme poverty and nourishing communities into a new age of health and opportunity. Improved science and technology such as agroforestry, insecticide-treated malaria bed nets, antiretroviral drugs, the Internet, remote sensing and geographic information systems enriches this progress.

About Millennium Promise

The mission of Millennium Promise is to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa by 2015 in the fight to end extreme poverty. Millennium Promise takes a unique and holistic approach to this international mission by uniting science, business, civil society, government and the media to implement high-impact programs aimed at transforming impoverished communities across the continent. Our work is premised on the belief that our generation can finally end extreme poverty, hunger and preventable disease.