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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Infrastructure</title>
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	<description>Extreme Poverty Ends Here</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Community gets second wind after disaster</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/10/community-gets-second-wind-after-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayange sees the light at the end of the tunnel!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/07/mayange-sees-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chrysostome Mutwarangabo</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayange had been yearning for this moment for a long time: finally, the community of this Rwanda Millennium Village has seen the light, in every sense of the word.
Janvier Nzanywayimana was one of the people who were living in the dark. Now connection to the electricity grid has allowed him to go to university. How? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sauri looks back on five years of success</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/02/phase-ii-here-we-come-sauri-looks-back-on-five-years-of-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koraro receives an award for its education achievements</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/21/koraro-receives-an-award-for-its-education-achievements/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/01/21/koraro-receives-an-award-for-its-education-achievements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tadele Atakelti</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Koraro, Ethiopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia, was recognized for its achievements in the field of primary education in the state of Tigray, and was awarded a trophy and certificate in the local educational festival in December 2010.
Since 20005, Koraro has significantly contributed to the expansion and strengthening of universal primary education in the 22 establishments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the Millennium Villages: A response to Clemens and Demombynes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Pronyk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To download this article as a PDF, please click HERE.
The discussion around evaluating large-scale development projects is an important one.  Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes offer a critique of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) and its research methods.  Their paper misunderstands the MVP&#8217;s aims and evaluation methods.  We respond briefly here, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Director hails the &#8220;revolution of hope&#8221; in Ruhiira</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/28/wfp-director-hails-the-revolution-of-hope-in-ruhiira/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/28/wfp-director-hails-the-revolution-of-hope-in-ruhiira/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Welcome visitors, welcome today, we&#8217;ve all been waiting so long!&#8217; Coming over the crest of the hill into the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, children&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sauri farmers learn about new concepts in water and agriculture management</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/20/sauri-farmers-learn-about-new-concepts-in-water-and-agriculture-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/20/sauri-farmers-learn-about-new-concepts-in-water-and-agriculture-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth K’Awuor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s National Agency for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coding Progress: Matt Berg on ICT in the Millennium Villages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/22/coding-progress-matt-berg-on-ict-in-the-millennium-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/22/coding-progress-matt-berg-on-ict-in-the-millennium-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Shaw</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Water Resources in Tiby</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/17/improving-water-resources-in-tiby/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/06/17/improving-water-resources-in-tiby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Shaw</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Tiby, Mali]]></category>

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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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennium Promise Japan: Connecting Japan and Uganda through Secondary Education Partnerships</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/09/millennium-promise-japan-connecting-japan-and-uganda-through-secondary-education-partnerships/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/04/09/millennium-promise-japan-connecting-japan-and-uganda-through-secondary-education-partnerships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 was the theme that characterised a week [...]]]></description>
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