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Posted by Serigne Tacko Kandji  |  Feb 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Potou, Senegal

Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization visits Potou Millennium Village

On Monday 22 January, 2010, the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Jacques Diouf, visited the Community Garden of Gabane Wolof located in the Potou Millennium Village cluster. This garden is established by the Millennium Village project and used by FAO to implement its GIPD (Gestion Intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs) Program. Mr Diouf was accompanied by the FAO . . . [more]

Posted by Katrina Kahl  |  Apr 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
Education • Mbola, Tanzania • Potou, Senegal • Tiby, Mali

Boosting Student Enrolment in Mali and Senegal

A partnership between buildOn and the Millennium Villages project has completed 30 new schools in Mali. Together these 30 schools will provide access to education for up to 4,500 kids in the Mali Millennium Villages cluster. For this project, community members contributed over 81,000 volunteer work days to complete the schools, accounting for all of the volunteer labor needed to build the classrooms, latrines and offices. This is an average of more than . . . [more]

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