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Millennium Villages
The Millennium Villages Project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
The Millennium Villages are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals – global targets for reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half and improving education, health, gender equality and environmental sustainability – by 2015, and escape the extreme poverty that traps hundreds of millions of people throughout the continent.
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- Cloud computing, internet access transforms education in Ghanaian schools
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Facts & figures
There are 80 Millennium Villages clustered into 14 different sites in 11 countries across Africa. More than 500,000 people throughout these villages benefit from mobile connectivity as a result of the Millennium Villages project.
The Millennium Villages are located in: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Liberia. In Dertu, Kenya, more than 3,000 phone minutes are logged daily in a village with nearly 6,000 residents.
