'Welcome visitors, welcome today, we've all been waiting so long!' Coming over the crest of the hill into the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, children's singing voices gradually become louder, intermingled with bursts of clapping and laughter. The long-awaited visitor, Jeffrey Sachs, is due to arrive at any moment, and the anticipation is palpable. Sachs, Head . . . [more]
Fifty farmers, including 10 women, from Sauri Millennium Village, Western Kenya, were trained in July on new concepts in water and agriculture management by a team from the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies. The training came as a result of a two year old collaboration between The MDG Centre and Mashav, Israel's National Agency for International Development Cooperation.
In December 2008, three staff from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) went to Israel . . . [more]
When is a text message more than just “hello?” When a community health worker can text symptoms of an illness and receive an instant diagnosis without leaving a patient’s home. When a farmer can report a broken water pump and instantly activate delivery of replacement parts. And when a herder can learn the day’s commodity prices without traveling to . . . [more]
In the savanna of central Mali where rainfall is unreliable, water is precious and clean water rare. Relying on unprotected water sources for drinking and cooking, most of the community in the Millennium Village of Tiby has been constantly at risk of exposure to waterborne disease, which can lead to serious illness and even death.
Today, an ambitious new piped water system is changing this situation, bringing safer water to more convenient locations throughout the Millennium Village. Read the rest . . . [more]
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]
Energy services are increasingly important for the Millennium Villages (MVs), and at a special breakfast seminar on . . . [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]
A high level Korean delegation visited the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, on December 9, to witness achievements made possible by the partnership between the Government of Korea and Millennium Promise.
Established in November 2008, this partnership known as the Korean Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is a five-year, $8 million commitment to support a pilot development program in Uganda and Tanzania. The . . . [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]
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]
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