Millennium Villages

Breakthroughs in Health in the Millennium Villages

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Child Mortality, Millennium Villages, Global Health, Millennium Development Goals, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Approximately one out of every eight children in sub-Saharan Africa dies before his or her fifth birthday from preventable and treatable causes. These deaths are preventable through the deployment of health systems of the kind being pioneered in the Millennium Villages.

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Nigeria's Ambitious Effort to End Poverty

Amina Az-Zubair | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Nigeria, Poverty Nigeria, Global Poverty, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Millennium Villages, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, World News

It's hard for those of us who work day in and day out, on the ground to fight poverty to see such flippancy and carelessness in the media. This is especially true in this case, where the facts are so easy to ascertain.

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Following Floods, MetLife Brings Life to Budapur Village, Pakistan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Human Development Foundation, International Development, Pakistan, Sindh Province, Metlife Alico, Metlife, Jim Luce, Batool Hassan, Hdf, Tsunami, Bricks for a Village, Salim Manzar, Budapur Village, Arif Mufti, Karachi, Millennium Villages, Impact News

MetLife, which closed its acquisition of Alico late last year, is set to rebuild an entire village in Pakistan in less than six months following the disaster.

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Labor Of Love: Clothing Line OmniPeace Exceeds School Construction Goals In Senegal

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millennium Villages, Mary Fanaro, Africa, Senegal, Congo, Steve Jobs, Omnipeace, Impact News

When Mary Fanaro first began her mission of ending poverty in Africa in 2007, she started a charitable chocolate company. What it's turned in to is ev...

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Rigorous Impact Evaluation Is Not a Luxury: Scrutinizing the Millennium Villages

Michael Clemens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millennium Villages Project, Foreign Aid, Millennium Villages, Kenya, United Nations, Cell Phones, Columbia University, World Bank, Africa, World News

Africans have urgent needs, but they have urgent needs for things that work, and many of them have been disappointed by well-intended outsiders in the past.

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UN Vows to Make Voices of Poorest Heard at G20 Summit

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Amid news reports headlining the summit of a group of 20 of "the world's most powerful economies" in Toronto, Canada, some are wondering: What about the weaker ones?

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Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

John W. McArthur | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Millennium Promise, G8 Summit, Malawi, United Nations, Malaria, Millennium Villages Project, Sustainable Development, Green Revolution, g20, G20 Summit, Mdgs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, G8, Millennium Villages, Safe Drinking Water, Earth Institute, Global Poverty, Fighting Malaria, Poverty Alleviation, MDG Summit, Impact News

Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he ...

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Breakthrough Village Results for Integrated Rural Needs

John W. McArthur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Compact, G8, Mdgs, Poverty, Malawi, Poverty Alleviation, United Nations, Malaria, Community-Based Development, Millennium Villages Project, Mali, Millennium Development Goals, g20, Millennium Villages, Extreme Poverty, Sauri, Community Health Workers, Kenya, Impact News

This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya. The article by Jeffrey Gettleman highlights the co...

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Tourism in the Developing World - Beneficial or Exploitative?

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Millennium Villages, Tourism, Poverty, Africa, World News

Tourism in Rwanda helps eradicate poverty and hunger. It makes it possible for more children to go to school. It helps bridge the divide between cultures, not deepen it.

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Famine and Plenty, Both in Times of Drought

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Genocide, Hunger, World Food Day, Food Security, Rwanda, Mayange, Millennium Villages, Paul Kagame, Kenya, Kigali, World News

In Rwanda and across Africa, the Millennium Villages project has demonstrated that food scarcity can be all but vanquished if the required resource management, investment and political will are available.

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Sustainable Results: Addressing Misconceptions About The Millennium Villages Project

Donald Ndahiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Foreign Aid, Tourism, Jeffrey Sachs, Africa, Millennium Villages, Entrepreneurship, World News

The project has achieved its goal of sustainably reducing poverty in the community, and on that foundation of stability, the community has begun real prosperity-creation projects.

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Jeffrey Sachs' Misguided Foreign Aid Efforts

Magatte Wade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millennium Villages, Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Entrepreneurship, Dambisa Moyo, Humanitarian Aid, Africa, World News

Poverty in Africa will be eliminated not by aid, but by entrepreneurial job creation, by real entrepreneurs creating scalable enterprises that will ultimately create millions of jobs.

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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