A little girl in a dark red dress runs around laughing. Her mother tries to catch her, before she trips on her ruffles and falls. Florence picks up Nicole and dries her tears. A tender and loving moment between a mother and her young daughter, who is learning to discover the world. A sight like so many others. But this scene has a twist to it: Florence is HIV+ and Nicole is not.
The pair lives in the Millennium Village of Sauri, Western Kenya, and made the trip to Nairobi -- Nicole's first into the big capital city -- to share . . . [more]
‘Before, we were using the bush. Now we have latrines for boys and girls, and the headmaster told us how to use them.’ The 12-year-old boy's candid explanation is a reminder of the lack of hygiene that still prevails in schools in rural and poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Like thousands of children, Nasiyani Chiwuye . . . [more]
Laundry soap, margarine, cooking oil, skin moisturizer: all these are products shoppers in developed countries drop into their carts without a second thought. In Mwandama, a remote village in Malawi with no supermarket and limited internet, the community was falling right through the meshes of the consumer grid. But a group of enterprising women has achieved nothing less than a small revolution by effectively turning themselves into sales representatives for the world's second-largest consumer . . . [more]
Five years ago, Falanes Josephat hit rock bottom: she suspected her husband of being HIV positive, got tested and found out she was too. In poor, rural Malawi, this meant one thing: death. And, in her case, leaving behind four small children with the bleakest of futures. 'I was depressed. I thought I would die fast,' says the 38 year-old mother.
Five years on, not only is she still . . . [more]
Martha dusts a small table with flour then starts kneading the dough, before dividing it into tennis-sized balls. Next to her, Jennifer places the balls on a tray and straight into the oven's open mouth. The sweet smell of baked bread suddenly fills the air. A few minutes later, the golden, warm rolls are taken out and brushed with margarine, turning into deliciously shiny pearls. The group . . . [more]
'Farmers didn’t use fertilizers because they believed that if they did, they could never stop and get out of this cycle,' added the Prime Minister, . . . [more]
Fifteen years ago, Rwanda was devastated by one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Close to a million people were massacred in 100 days. As the country continues its difficult but remarkable recovery from the genocide, the Millennium Village of Mayange is living proof that economic development can play a significant role in the reconciliation process.
Mayange, located south of the capital Kigali, saw . . . [more]
Patrice Nsihimymihigo's small courtyard is covered with cassava. Sitting around it, women peel the brown roots and throw them back milky white onto the pile. Soon, his buyers, Rwandan middlemen, will whisk away his harvest to sell it at the border with Burundi.
Patrice is one of many smallholders in the Mayange Millennium Village, 40 km South of Kigali, who have been . . . [more]
The glitzy New York fashion scene and the muddy hills of a poor Ugandan village may seem worlds apart, but a backpack is bringing them closer.
Lauren and Doreen walk side by side on a dirt road in Ruhiira, a Millennium Village in the South-East of the country, each carrying the . . . [more]
On Monday, July 6th, the French ambassador to Kenya, Her Excellency Mrs. Elisabeth Barbier, visited the Dertu Millennium Village. She was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Avner Cohen and two embassy employees, Mr. Georges Deiner, counselor for cooperation and cultural affairs, and Ms. Pauline Wesolek, program manager. The visit came . . . [more]
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Agriculture • Business Development • Health • Sauri, Kenya
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