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2010

January 15, 2010 | Modern Ghana News
Dr Jeffery Sachs meets President Mills

January 11, 2010 | Plus News
Task-shifting, new technology crucial to ending mother-to-child transmission

January 2, 2010 | The Standard
Sachs helped me think business, says farmer

2009

December 17, 2009 | Korea Times
Chief of Aid Agency Singles Out Three Nations for Special Consideration

November, 2009 | African Decisions
In The Nick of Time: The Millennium Villages Project

October, 2009 | FrankenPost
Zu Besuch in einer Nomadenschule (German)

September 30, 2009 | Scientific American
Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?

September 23, 2009 | Whitehouse.gov
At UN, Obama re-affirms commitment to MDGs

September 22, 2009 | Millennium Promise
New Partnerships for Millennium Villages Project Announced
PDF

September 21, 2009 | UNAIDS
UNAIDS/Millennium Villages Project join forces to keep babies free from HIV in Africa

August 28, 2009 | AllAfrica.com
Rwanda: Millennium Village Brings Prosperity And Unity
PDF

August 26, 2009 | The Huffington Post
Public-Private Partnerships: Creating Infrastructure and the Expertise to Run It

August 5, 2009 | The Hunger Site
The Hunger Site forms partnership with Millennium Promise

June 21, 2009 | Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea
Korean Millennium Village Project launches PDF

July 14, 2009 | World Vision Report
Aid to Africa has brought significant change

July 10, 2009 | MDG Centre
Green energy comes to one of Kenya's remotest areas PDF

July 10, 2009 | Unicef
Junior 8 Summit 2009 Rome Declaration

July 9, 2009 | New York Times
Obama enlists major powers to aid poor farmers with $15 billion

July 7, 2009 | Millennium Villages Blog
Nigerian mosquito net deliveries protect millions from malaria

July 7, 2009 | Millennium Villages Blog
French Ambassador to Kenya visits Dertu Millennium Village

June 30, 2009 | MacArthur Foundation
Professional Training for Future Sustainable Development Leaders

June 30, 2009 | Millennium Villages Blog
A camel, a tree and a blackboard: Dertu's mobile classrooms

June 26, 2009 | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Needed: a New Generation of Problem Solvers

June 13, 2009 | Global Brief
How much progress in Africa?

June 11, 2009 | The Huffington Post
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: The best investment we can make

June 10, 2009 | MDG Centre
Kenya takes the lead in business alliance against chronic hunger
PDF

June 8, 2009 | Millennium Villages Blog
US media editors stop in Sauri on Kenya tour

June 3, 2009 | Africa News
Africa News visits Mbola Millennium Village

June 2, 2009 | The Guardian (UK)
Online chat with Jeffrey Sachs about aid for Africa

June 2, 2009 | Millennium Villages Blog
Matt Damon visits Mayange, Rwanda Millennium Village

May 28, 2009 | The New Times (Rwanda)
Aid helps build the foundations for prosperity

May 27, 2009 | The Guardian (UK)
Havens of hope and what can we learn from the Millennium Villages

May 21, 2009 | ad-hoc-news.de
Ericsson, Zain and the Earth Institute fight poverty in Millennium Village in Nigeria with mobile technology

May 20, 2009 | KansasCity.com
Legend rocks NYC rooftop for Show Me charity

May 20, 2009 | The Daily Ugandan
Community health workers for better health

May 13, 2009 | GlobalBrief.ca: Global Blog
Three tweets across the (old) global divide

May 11, 2009 | African Monitor
The place of aid in Africa's solutions to its problems PDF

April 21, 2009 | MTViggy.com
Jeffrey Sachs on MTV: "We are the generation that can end poverty."

April 9, 2009 | Reuters
Rural medics to get mobile advice 'hotline'

April 9, 2009 | Washington Post
Keeping Africa's turnaround on track

April 8, 2009 | Daily Monitor (Ugandan)
Water source gives despised village new name By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

March 27, 2009 | CNN
John McArthur on CNN: foreign aid has brought tremendous achievements

March 20, 2009 | CNN
Jeffrey Sachs commentary for CNN: 3 Billion Poor People Need World's Help

March 11, 2009 | podcast.cbc.ca
John McArthur on CBC Radio about the successes of foreign aid

March 09, 2009 | www.reliefweb.int
Maama kits promote safe deliveries in Uganda

February 25, 2009 | www.pr.com
Nika Water pledges to support Millennium Promise

February 25, 2009 | World Economic Forum
Millennium Promise CEO John McArthur recognized as a Young Global Leader

February 24, 2009 | New York Times
After a devastating birth injury, hope - The New York Times visits a maternity ward in Tanzania

February 23, 2009 | www.sys-con.com
UN Reception highlights Global Partnerships

February 18, 2009 | The Daily Ugandan
Modern Technology to improve Farmers' Yields

February 17, 2009
Equity spreads its wings in Nyanza By John John Oyuke PDF

February 13, 2009 | YouTube
CareerBuilder.com employees visit the Mwandama, Malawi Millennium Village

February 05, 2009 | Financial Times
Billion-dollar bonuses and the planet's poorest

January 27, 2009 | biology.plosjournals.org
New report on Malawi's agricultural breakthrough

January 13, 2009 | www.nation.co.ke
Kenya project to star in MTV's Obama Inauguration special

 

2008

November 26, 2008 | Daily Monitor (Ugandan)
Isingiro residents embark on saving the environment By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

November, 2008 | Daily Monitor (Ugandan)
Riding on Goats to escape poverty By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

November 11, 2008 | The New York Times
Ensuring That Gifts Go Where They're Needed By Jan M. Rosen PDF

November 5, 2008 | Monitor Online (Ugandan)
Ruhiira residents reap wealth from goat rearing By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

November 5, 2008 | Monitor Online (Ugandan)
Turning banana yields into cash By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

November 3, 2008 | Financial Times
UN village project boosts Africa By Alan Beattie PDF

September 10, 2008 | Associated Press
Wall St. trader to sell stamps for African project PDF

September 1, 2008 | The New York Times
Google's Philanthropy Arm Leads Effort to Use Weather Data to Fight Disease By Eliza Barclay PDF

August 6, 2008 | Financial Times
Hard cash, not subsidies, seen as best help for poor By Alan Beattie PDF

August 7, 2008 | Monitor Online
Ruhiira brings hope to pregnant mothers By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

August 5, 2008 | New Vision (Ugandan)
50 Isingiro health workers get boost By Abdulkarim Ssengendo PDF

July, 2008 | Africa Renewal, Vol.22 #2
Fighting African poverty, village by village By Ernest Harsch PDF

July 1, 2008 | CNN Money
How GE gives away its money By Marc Gunther PDF

June 17, 2008 | The Christian Science Monitor
How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest By Eliza Barclay

June 9, 2008 | Financial Times
Malawi cultivates cash gains for its farmers By Alan Beattie PDF

June 5, 2008 | Mail & Guardian
Zuma: Rising food prices a time bomb PDF

June 3, 2008 | Financial Times
Seeds of change By Alan Beattie PDF

June 2, 2008 | AllAfrica.com
Uganda: Churning Money From Banana Leaves By Otushabire Tibyangye PDF

May 23, 2008 | Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (French)
Louga : le représentant-résident du PNUD salue l'amorce de développement notée à Léona

May 19, 2008 | The East African
Celtel to Give Internet Services to Millennium Villages By Philip Ngunjiri PDF

May 11, 2008 | The Sunday Times
Malawi shines in small-scale farming By Karen Msiska PDF

May 10, 2008 | The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Toll-Free Rural Phones Coming PDF

May 8, 2008 | BBC World Service
The food crisis in Africa By Madeleine Morris

May 7, 2008 | Panapress
UN poverty plan ignites mass school enrolments in Ghana By Kennedy Abwao PDF

May 5, 2008 | South African Broadcasting Corporation
UN, economist say locals must aid development By Crystal Orderson and Malusi Ntanzi PDF

April 16, 2008 | The Japan Times
Soccer philanthropist Nakata signs on for exhibition match

April 14, 2008 | The New York Times
Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity

March 13, 2008 | Government of Japan
The Government of Japan through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security extends support to Millennium Villages

2007

December 12, 2007 | Associated Press
Rwanda Genocide Victims, Killers Meet PDF

December 9, 2007 |  Asahi Shimbun
Changing Africa PDF

December 5, 2007 |  CNN
Rwanda Rising

December 2, 2007 |  The New York Times
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts

November 23, 2007 |  The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
Israeli Experts Train Farmers in Hawzen On Modern Beekeeping PDF

October 29, 2007 |  People Magazine
John Legend: Against All Odds in Africa

October 23, 2007 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
African Millennium Villages PDF

October 8, 2007 |  ABC News
Musician John Legend Visits Millennium Village

October 16 , 2007 | Guardian (Tanzanian)
Tanzania impresses UN chief Ban Ki-moon
By Assah MwambenePDF

October 16, 2007 | Irish Examiner
Africa: Rising to a global challenge By Juno McEnroe PDF

September 26, 2007 | HardTalk on BBC
Sarah Montague talks to the UN Secretary General's chief adviser on the Millennium Goals, Jeffrey Sachs.

September 11, 2007 | Svenska Dagbladet
Fattiga byar får mobilnä By Tomas Augustsson PDF

September 10, 2007 | BBC
Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'

September 10, 2007 | CNN
Ericsson and Columbia's Earth Institute join forces to empower Millennium VIllages through communications

July 28, 2007 | Sunday Vision (Ugandan)
Bitter Water to Sweet By John Odyek PDF

July 2, 2007 | New Vision (Ugandan)
United Nations Praises Country's UPE By Arthur Baguma PDF

July 2007 | Vanity Fair
Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream By Nina Munk PDF
Jeffrey Sachs—visionary economist, savoir of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars—won't settle for less than the global eradication of extreme poverty. And he hasn't got a second to waste.

June 21, 2007 | The Weekly Observer (Ugandan)
Pilot Millennium Village gives hope to the poor By Richard M. Kavuma PDF

June 7, 2007 | The Economist
Going up or down?   (MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: Kenya) PDF
As the world's group of rich countries discusses aid to Africa, a correspondent who lived in Kenya four decades ago looks glumly at it now—but sees glints of hope.

June 1, 2007 | Frankfurter Rundschau (German)
In Mwandama geht es bergauf By Johannes Dietrich PDF
Schickt kein Geld, schickt Buchprüfer By Steven Geyer PDF

May 31, 2007 | Der Spiegel (German)
Ein Businessplan für die Armen By Marc Hujer PDF

May 26, 2007 | Der Tagesspiegel (German)
Die Goldene Saat By Harald Schumaan PDF

May 20, 2007 | Voice of America 
Millennium Village in Senegal starts spending donor dollars By Phuong Tran PDF

April 20, 2007 | Daily Nation (Kenyan)
The one hunger-ravaged villages that have plenty of food and glory By Daniel Otieno PDF

April 2007 | Mail & Guardian
Kenyan Millennium Village tests poverty-reduction goals
By Beatrice Debut PDF

March 27, 2007 | Agence France Presse (French)
Dans l'ouest du Kenya, un rêve devient réalité: la pauvreté recule PDF

March 25, 2007 | Sunday Standard (Kenyan)
A mission to turn despair into hope By Mangoa Mosota PDF

March 13, 2007 | Natürlich (Swiss)
Die Insel der Seiligen PDF

March 12, 2007 | Newsweek
DEMOCRACY - Big Man Walking By Elizabeth Dickinson PDF

Jan 23, 2007 | The Guardian
Crib Sheet
By Will Woodward, John Crace and Francis Beckett PDF

Jan 18, 2007 | The Nation (Kenyan)
UN official links poverty to malaria By Kaburu Mugambi PDF

Jan 17, 2007 | Reuters
Aid for poor guarantees security for rich – Sachs By Jeremy Clarke PDF

Jan 15, 2007 | The Guardian
Tories pledge $1bn a year to wipe out malaria By Will Woodward PDF

2006

December 28, 2006 | Die Zeit (German)
Die Rückkehr der Retter By Thomas Fischermann and Claas Pieper PDF

Oct 26, 2006 | La Repubblica (Italian)
Il cantiere della felicità By Laura Putti PDF

Oct 19,  2006 | Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish)
Omtvistat projekt ger nytt hopp By Peter Grensund PDF

Oct 6, 2006 | Hamburger Abendblatt (German)
Raus aus der Armutsfalle - das Wunder von Sauri PDF

Sept 21, 2006 | The Independent
In the village where aid makes a vital difference By Steve Bloomfield in Sauri, Kenya PDF

Sept 17, 2006 | Jeune Afrique (French)
Milliardaires au grand coeur
By Marianne Meunier PDF

Sept 13, 2006 | ABC News
A Big Boost in the Fight Against Poverty
By Martin Seemungal PDF

Sept 13, 2006  | The New York Times
Philanthropist Gives $50 Million to Help Aid the Poor in Africa
By Celia W. Dugger PDF

Sept 7, 2006 | Berliner Zeitung (German)
Das Wunder von Sauri
By Stefan Ehlert PDF

July 29, 2006 | Süeddeutsche Zeitung
Ausweg der Armutsfalle By Moritz Koch PDF

July 20, 2006 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Big changes in poor villages By Douglas Pike PDF

July 6, 2006 | Nature Magazine
Development: Harvest of hope By Sarah Tomlin PDF

June 12, 2006 | Associated Press
African village revitalized by farm program that could teach rich countries how to help poor ones
By Chris Tomlinson PDF

June 2006  | Oprah Magazine
To Halve the Have-Nots
By R.B. PDF

May 29, 2006 | Deutsche Presse Agentur
Kenyan village experiments to slash poverty on the cheap
By Ebba Kalondo PDF

April 27, 2006 | The Economist
The Magnificent Seven PDF (MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA: African poverty)
How a few simple reforms can lift African villages out of poverty.

March 6, 2006 | People Magazine
Malawi, Africa: Special Report on Gift Msunzi
By Richard Jerome PDF

March 2006 | Die Zeit Wissen (German)
Endlich gibt es sauberes Wasser By Stefanie Schramm PDF

2005

Sept 30, 2005 | BBC News
In pictures: 'Millennium Village' in Kenya
(Slideshow)

July 30, 2005 | The Japan Times
Africa: moving beyond chronic emergency By Cesar Chelala PDF

July 5, 2005 | The Australian
From dirt poor to soil rich in just five years
By Xan Rice PDF

July 4, 2005 | CNN
Christiane Amanpour special report from Koraro, Ethiopia: Turning a village around
PDF

April 27, 2005 | The New York Times
In Ethiopian Hills, Five Years to Create Something Out of Nothing By Helene Cooper PDF

April 4, 2005 | The New York Times
Kenyan Village Serves as Test Case in Fight on Poverty By Marc Lacey PDF

 

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