Members of the small community of Uranga, in Western Kenya, don't have to walk long distances anymore to access healthcare. Now, they can visit St. Elizabeth Onding dispensary, which was inaugurated recently by local officials and the Sauri Millennium Village team. The villagers were so aware of the need for such a facility that one of them donated the plot where it was built, while others contributed with bricks and construction material.
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Storm clouds had been gathering all afternoon that Sunday. But no one in Mindhine expected the heavy downpour and strong winds that hit this Millennium Village last August. The roof of the health facility, covering six rooms that offer out-patient services, was blown off. The electricity line, kitchen and a pit latrine nearby were not spared either. At the time, the dispensary was being refurbished and expanded, and so construction materials like timber were damaged by water. Drugs and paper work were destroyed, iron sheets were blown away. Property worth approximately Ksh 450,000 ($5,600) was damaged. The only surviving building . . . [more]
Located in Western Kenya, Sauri was the first Millennium Village (MV) to see the light in 2005. Five years on, the project area has grown to nearly 70,000 people and has registered numerous successes in its multi-sectoral approach.
The MV team and the community celebrated this at the inauguration of new classrooms at the end of October 2010.
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The first time that US Ambassador Earl N. Phillips heard about Marenyo, a community within Sauri Millennium Village (Western Kenya), was four years ago during a conference. Touched by the story, he decided to support the villagers to fulfill their objective of lifting themselves out of poverty and reaching the Millennium Development Goals. But little did he know then . . . [more]
This March Prof. Masayuki Tadokoro, a well known professor of International politics at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, took two weeks off to visit the Sauri Millennium Village Project (MVP) with Millennium Promise Japan staff. With the intent of looking at ways the university could cooperate with the MVP in the future, the Professor was interested in understanding how sustainable the project is. He was pleased to learn that sustainability of the Millennium Villages was inculcated in the project processes right from the . . . [more]
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