Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Posted by Joelle Bassoul Mojon | Dec 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Dertu, Kenya • Education • Health • Millennium Villages Project • Sauri, Kenya
'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]
Posted by Ahmed Mohamed | Nov 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
Dertu, Kenya • Education • Health • Infrastructure • Millennium Development Goals • Partners
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]
Posted by Ahmed Mohamed | Nov 11, 2009 | 1 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Dertu, Kenya • Health • Infrastructure
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]
Posted by Jackline Oluoch | Sep 9, 2009 | 7 Comments
Dertu, Kenya • Health • MDG Centres
The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory). In this difficult, arid area where communities move in search of water and pasture, the role played by Community Health Workers (CHWs) is vital and helps save lives. Though Dertu has a dispensary with a functional six bed . . . [more]
Posted by Joelle Bassoul Mojon | Jul 7, 2009 | 1 Comments
Dertu, Kenya • Infrastructure
On Monday, July 6th, the French ambassador to Kenya, Her Excellency Mrs. Elisabeth Barbier, visited the Dertu Millennium Village. She was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Avner Cohen and two embassy employees, Mr. Georges Deiner, counselor for cooperation and cultural affairs, and Ms. Pauline Wesolek, program manager. The visit came . . . [more]
Posted by Joelle Bassoul Mojon | Jun 30, 2009 | 5 Comments
Dertu, Kenya • Education
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]
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