In a recent entry in the Huffington Post, Josh Ruxin discusses why we must keep our promise to end global poverty, even during the worst economic recession of the last several decades. He explains that achieving the Millennium Development Goals is one of the most cost-effective investments we can make: meeting the MDGs . . . [more]
On a recent fact finding mission in Rwanda, Matt Damon and a team from ONEXONE – a nonprofit foundation that supports the work of Millennium Promise – visited the Mayange Millennium Village. Here they had the opportunity to visit schools, hospitals, farms and locally-owned businesses to talk to community members about the Millennium Villages project (MVP).
The team filmed Matt outside of a primary school in . . . [more]
Last month, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund published the 2009 Global Monitoring Report to show our progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Aptly titled A Development Emergency, the report is full of sobering statistics about the potential impact of the economic crisis on the world’s poorest people. According to the report, the crisis may push more than 50 million additional people into extreme poverty in 2009. About 200,000 to 400,000 more babies may die each year between 2009 and 2015. And this . . . [more]
A partnership between buildOn and the Millennium Villages project has completed 30 new schools in Mali. Together these 30 schools will provide access to education for up to 4,500 kids in the Mali Millennium Villages cluster. For this project, community members contributed over 81,000 volunteer work days to complete the schools, accounting for all of the volunteer labor needed to build the classrooms, latrines and offices. This is an average of more than . . . [more]
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