On the morning of November 19, 2009, more than 50 people gathered online and in the New York offices of Millennium Promise to participate in a roundtable discussion on water management initiatives in the Millennium Villages project (MVP). Led by Dr. Stephen Ngigi, an Associate Research Scientist with The Earth Institute, who is the MVP’s Water Resources Specialist and Water Coordinator based at the MDG . . . [more]
May 2009 was a turning point for the people of the Millennium Village of Dertu, Northern Kenya. The administrative status of Dertu changed from Location to Division, and the day was marked with jovial celebrations headed by the Provincial Commissioner for North Eastern Province Josphat Maingi, the Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament for Lagdera (the constituency where Dertu is located) Farah . . . [more]
Climate change is a reality in the Millennium Village of Dertu and Northern Kenya. The region has been receiving only showers since November/December 2006, a situation that has lead to deteriorating pasture and water over time in this nomadic based area. After the failure of the April/May 2009 rains, the intensity of the . . . [more]
Sitting under a sprawling acacia tree, Abdulahi Bari Barrow points to his blackboard and asks the students to repeat the lesson after him. Here, there are no classrooms and no roof other than the branches, no walls other than the tree trunk which supports the blackboard, and no desk other than the straw mat laid on the sand. This is the mobile school of . . . [more]
Infrastructure • MDG Centres • Millennium Villages Project
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