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.

Feb 06

Crowd-Sourcing CHW Scale-up - Part I

By Dr. Prabhjot Singh

In part one of a two-part blog series, Dr. Prabhjot Singh explains the origins of the One Million Community Healthcare Workers Campaign and how the campaign will be using crowd-sourced input to inform and drive its activities.

Jan 31

A Vital Link to Health Services in Sauri, Kenya

By Claire Bulger

Community Health Workers take advantage of low and high-tech tools to provide a critical link between village residents and the local healthcare clinic.

May 05

Africa: An Open Skies Lab for Sustainable Development?

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Critics of sustainable development projects initiated by Westerners in Africa often raise a question: what happens when those Westerners pull out? The answer lies in an important concept: community ownership.

Jun 03

Launch of a New Base Station for Mobile Communications in Pampaida

By Bala Yusuf Yunusa

On Thursday, May 21, 2009, the Pampaida Millennium Village celebrated the launch of a new base station that will provide mobile communications to this rural Nigerian community.

Mar 03

The MVP introduces enhanced mobile technology to reduce child and maternal mortality

By Jackline Oluoch

Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites.

Mar 12

Breakthrough Village Results for Integrated Rural Needs

By John McArthur

This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya.

May 31

Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

By John McArthur

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

Jun 22

Coding Progress: Matt Berg on ICT in the Millennium Villages

By Amy Shaw

When is a text message more than just “hello?” When a community health worker can text symptoms of an illness and receive an instant diagnosis without leaving a patient’s home.

Sep 23

The Community Resource Centre: Ruhiira’s window on the world

By Naomi Handa-Williams

Not long ago, next to the Ruhiira Health Centre was a relatively unassuming looking building surrounded by scattered building blocks and cast in the shadow of a towering radio mast which usually had the ICT facilitator Elly Nankunda tinkering at the top of it.

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.

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 19

Pay-as-you-go Electricity Lights Way in Millennium Villages

By Jeremy Hinsdale

A central solar electricity system connects multiple households and businesses. Customers buy prepaid scratch cards and send text messages to a payment server.

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.

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 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.

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