Millennium Villages

May 16

Honey Money Sustains Mbola Millennium Village

By Frederic Geiger

Many local farmers in the Mbola Millennium Village harvest honey from traditional beehives, but until recently the equipment and techniques used have greatly limited honey production. The Millennium Villages Project has stepped in to assist farmers to modernize and commercialize honey production in an effort to guarantee both sustainable livelihoods and food security in the largely subsistence, agrarian economy.

Apr 05

Progress Toward Sustainability via Agribusiness in Malawi

By Natalia Mroz

The Millennium Villages Project has begun to accelerate its efforts to promote sustainability. Mwandama, Malawi is leading is leading the way by creating rural cooperatives designed to help member farmers transition from subsistence to commercialized agriculture.

Sep 30

Rwanda’s Millennium Village exports cassava to Burundi

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Patrice Nsihimymihigo’s small courtyard is covered with cassava. Sitting around it, women peel the brown roots and throw them back milky white onto the pile.

Jan 04

Successful launch of Mayange’s cassava flour plant

By Aloys Hakizimana

All were anxiously expecting it: the farmers in order to sell off their harvest, the community to buy good quality products, and the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) team to kick-start this income generating venture.

Jan 26

Emerging from traditional to income-generating farming

By Jeannette Mukabalisa

An entrepreneurial group of Mayange residents are building a new business by taking an old idea—beekeeping—and updating it with the help of training from the Millennium Villages Project and financial support from the Mayange Community Development Fund.

Aug 22

“Ekirooto,” the Dreaming Weaver Cooperative

By Diana Sierra

The jewelry trade empowers Ugandan women in the Millennium Village of Ruhiira.

Jun 20

Boosting Income Through Oil Palm Production in Ghana

By Allison Greenberg with reporting by Francis Osei and Samuel Ekow Haizel

A total of 792 households are now farming more than 1,200 hectares of oil palm, making it the second largest source of agricultural income in the Bonsaaso cluster.

May 01

Women's Knitting Cooperative Helps Pay the Bills

By Amy Shaw

The MVP is intensely focused on raising incomes through expanding business development opportunities which include forming cooperatives and investing in machinery.

Apr 25

Grams per Ton: What Does a Millennium Village Look Like in a Gold Mine?

By Allison Greenberg

Most artisanal or small-scale mining communities—in Ghana and across Africa—have been extracting gold for centuries, long before prices rallied in the last decade.

Mar 26

Pigs Give Women's Group a Boost in Income and Security

By Amy Shaw

In Mayange, Rwanda, the Millennium Villages Project helped establish the Abadaiga Cooperative of pig famers for single women.

Feb 29

Solar Power Lights Up New Business in Uganda Village

By Natalia Mroz

Asimwe Enock provides haircuts using electricity from solar panels well into the night after the sun has gone down.

Oct 13

Business Development and Cooperative Training a Focus in Next Phase of Project

By Natalia Mroz

The second phase of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was launched on Monday, October 3rd , by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

Jan 05

Empowering Women: the Force Behind Ruhiira’s Best Restaurant

By Naomi Handa-Williams

Lunch time in Ruhiira? Look no further. ‘Fang Fang’ is the place to go for yummy matooke (bananas) and beans. The woman behind this thriving micro-business is Tumushabe Boneconcila, whose entrepreneurial spirit is doing much to both improve the quality of her own life and radically shake up ideas of traditional gender roles in the community.

Jan 12

Cassava Bread, the Sweet Smell of Success

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Martha dusts a small table with flour then starts kneading the dough, before dividing it into tennis-sized balls. Next to her, Jennifer places the balls on a tray and straight into the oven’s open mouth.

Jan 31

Falanes: Beating AIDS Against All Odds

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Five years ago, Falanes Josephat hit rock bottom: she suspected her husband of being HIV positive, got tested and found out she was too. In poor, rural Malawi, this meant one thing: death. Five years on, not only is she still alive, she has a job and even a future.

Feb 07

Mayange Sees the Light at the End of the Tunnel!

By Chrysostome Mutwarangabo

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.

Feb 18

DIY Women Bring Mega-brand to Mwandama

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

In Mwandama, a remote village in Malawi with no supermarket and limited internet, the community was falling right through the meshes of the consumer grid. But a group of enterprising women has achieved nothing less than a small revolution by effectively turning themselves into sales representatives for the world’s second-largest consumer goods company.

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