Japan can feel like a very long way from Africa, and after 21 hours on a plane and a few delayed connections, this feeling certainly rung true for the delegation from Millennium Promise Japan who recently paid a visit to the Ruhiira Millennium Village in Uganda.
And yet connection . . . [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]
Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites.
The technology was presented to community health teams at a continent-wide workshop held in Nairobi in February 2010. The ChildCount+ application utilizes mobile phone technology to enhance maternal care and care for children under 5 . . . [more]
Since it's inauguration in mid 2006, the Mbola Millennium Villages Project (MVP), Tanzania, has addressed the disease burden in the area and malaria is cited as one of the most important health issues facing the community. The baseline survey of 2007 showed the endemicity of malaria in the cluster, with a prevalence of about 16%. In response to this challenge, the Project put together a coordinated plan of action to . . . [more]
I’m sitting in a rural doctor’s office listening to the senior administrator describe innovations in maternal health care. As I look around at the bright, airy, and clean conditions of the facilities, my thoughts are interrupted by her cell phone’s ringtone – I think it’s Jay-Z – and I cannot help but think of how amazing it all is. The administrator is teaching me how cell phones and text messages are being used to facilitate treatments for a wide range of illnesses between the health care workers at the clinic and their counterparts at major hospitals halfway across . . . [more]
On December 1 of every year Tanzanians join other people in the world to mark World AIDS Day. Apart from speeches, testimonies, as well as voluntary counseling and testing, vitamin A supplementation and de-worming for children under the age of five are normally part of the events organized nation-wide. This is a national campaign whereby every district, division (sub district), ward and village leader are required to participate and mobilize fully all . . . [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]
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]
Just as September and the UN General Assembly are getting the fall off to a running start, the Millennium Promise Partners Meeting was a great harbinger of progress in Africa for the months to come. . . . [more]
Business Development • Education • Health • Infrastructure • Millennium Development Goals • Ruhiira, Uganda • Sauri, Kenya
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