Millennium Villages

Apr 30

Social and Emotional Learning in Ruhiira, Uganda

By Golda Calonge

The practice of cross-generational sex (CGS), has extremely negative impacts on school-age girls in Uganda, increasing their risk of HIV infection and reducing their self-esteem. The service and emotional learning (SEL) initiative in the Ruhiira Millennium Village aims to provide support and education for vulnerable adolescent girls. Above is a photo of girls participating in Eminyeeto, a young women's empowerment program in Ruhiira.

Feb 28

African Voices: Education in Northern Ghana

By Abdulai Shefu, Head Teacher at Duu Primary and Junior High School - West Mamprusi District, Northern Ghana

This post on education is part of a series from the Millennium Village site of SADA in northern Ghana which was launched in late 2012. Through their own voice, the series explores how the lives of community members are changing over the duration of the project. Please check back with us as they continue to tell their stories.

Feb 21

Inside Kenya’s Sauri Millennium Village: a Beacon of Progress in Integrated Development

By Gabriel Saldaña - The Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture

The Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture visited Sauri Millennium Village in Kenya. In a blog post, they reflect on the their visit and the importance of an integrated approach to sustainable development, which is exemplified by the Millennium Village Project.

Feb 20

Book Distribution Ceremony at Ilolangulu Primary School

By MVP

"The new books are so beautiful," declared Fatuma, an excited round-cheeked Standard 2 student. "I want to touch them, and read them, and learn about the things they contain."

Apr 29

Boosting Student Enrollment in Mali and Senegal

By Katrina Kahl

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.

May 14

Pampaida: A Model of Rural Development in Nigeria

By Bala Yusuf Yunusa

Since inception, the Pampaida Millennium Village has achieved many successes.

Jun 30

A camel, a tree and a blackboard: Dertu’s mobile school

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Sitting under a sprawling acacia tree, Abdulahi Bari Barrow points to his blackboard and asks the students to repeat the lesson after him.

Sep 15

Carleton University students fund Millennium Promise with tuition fee

By Bryan Turner

Instead of fundraising, last year at Carleton University, Students To End Extreme Poverty campaigned to get a question to referendum whereby students would vote on whether or not they would pay an extra $6 per person annually in tuition fees to help finance a Millennium Village.

Dec 04

‘The MVP have opened up the eyes of people,’ says Kenya’s Prime Minister

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga hailed the Millennium Villages Project’s (MVP) achievements in his country, at a meeting in Nairobi with a high-level Ethiopian delegation.

Dec 08

Juliana’s story: Gender equality and education opportunities in Sauri

By Susan Karuti & Richard Ogeda

Everything in her future looked bleak. Juliana Rabilo Adele, a young girl born in a family of eight in the poor rural Kenyan village of Sauri, had struggled to join a secondary school.

Feb 24

Kenyan Ministry of Education delegation impressed with Sauri’s school meals program

By Richard Ogeda

It is possible! That was the key message from Margaret Ndanyi, the Director of the school health, nutrition and meals Unit at the Kenya Ministry of Education, after touring schools in the Sauri Millennium Villages Project.

Apr 13

Millennium Promise Japan: Using sport to connect schoolchildren in Japan and Uganda

By Naomi Handa-Williams

Through sports, we can connect without words, and it is upon this belief that Japan-based NGO Amitie was founded, and they use this idea as a means of realising their vision of promoting development and cross-cultural understanding.

May 18

Some Important Lessons for Global Academic Innovation

By John McArthur

Some Important Lessons for Global Academic Innovation Earlier this month the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced more than $5 million in grants to help ten universities establish cross-disciplinary Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) degree programs in eight countries around the world.

Oct 25

Ruhiira to Connecticut, just a mouse-click away

By Naomi Handa-Williams

Kabagambe Fudier, head of ICT programs at Omwicwamba Primary School in Ruhiira, is truly an embodiment of what the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is all about: by utilising the tools and skills provided by the project, he has created change both in his personal and professional life.

May 11

Education, No Matter the Cost

By Naomi Handa-Williams

Reaching education potential in Ruhiira, Uganda

Dec 12

Young Girls in Malawi Get Chance at Secondary Education

By Natalia Mroz

Ireene Malengah, a 15-year-old orphan: "It is important for girls to go to school because after finishing school they find good jobs. When I finish school, I want to be a nurse, because I want to assist people in our country."

Jun 30

A Camel, a Tree and a Blackboard: Dertu’s Mobile School

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

With camel and cell phone, Abdulahi Bari Barrow moves with pastoralist communities to provide education.

Apr 11

Scholarships Brighten Future for Young Girls in Rural Kenya

By Natalia Mroz

Early pregnancy, school fees, family obligations are among the reasons girls don't go beyond primary schooling. Connect to Learn is helping girls get a secondary school education.

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.

Feb 02

Sauri Looks Back on Five Years of Success

By Salome Munyendo

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.

Apr 06

Dertu MVP Students Shine in 2010 National Exam

By Abdi Sheikh Mohamed

With a little more than 700 students, Dertu’s primary school, set in this remote pastoralist village in arid Northern Kenya, was certainly not expecting to be in the news. So the joy and pride were big when a photo of one of its students was featured in a daily newspaper.

Feb 22

Innovative Tropical Laboratory in the Middle of the Ghanaian Rainforest

By Nela Berlanga & Yanis Ben Amor

When I arrived to the Bonsaaso Millennium Villages Project (MVP) site, my first impressions regarding the status of healthcare delivery were above expectations: I was pleasantly surprised about the great work that MVP and the Ghana Health Service had carried out in this cluster.

Mar 18

Hygiene: Talking About It to Clear the Air

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

‘Before, we were using the bush. Now we have latrines for boys and girls, and the headmaster told us how to use them.’ The 12-year-old boy’s candid explanation is a reminder of the lack of hygiene that still prevails in schools in rural and poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa.

Mar 01

Nineteen Students from Mbola Receive a Secondary School Scholarship

By Liana Mavura

Nineteen students from Mbola Millennium Village, in Uyui district in Tanzania, have been awarded secondary school scholarships from the Connect To Learn program.

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