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We are currently raising money to support The Raising Malawi Millennium Village Project in the Mchinji District of Malawi – a sustainable village for 5,000 villagers that we are co-creating with Columbia University‘s Jeffrey Sachs, PhD.
The cost to fund such a project – a single sustainable village – is $300,000 per year for five years. With your donations and support, we plan to raise the amount of $1,500,000 by November 1, 2006.
THE MILLENNIUM PROMISE
“We at Millennium Promise are overjoyed that Raising Malawi is leading the fight against extreme poverty by partnering with the Village of Gumulira, Malawi. Gumulira's 5,000 villagers now have the chance to escape from the trap of poverty, disease, and hunger and to achieve self-sustaining economic progress.”
– Jeffrey D. Sachs,
Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Professor Sachs is one of the pioneers in the effort to end world poverty. Together with a team of scientific experts from The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the UN Millennium Project, Professor Sachs created the Millennium Promise.
Millennium Promise is currently working with more than 75 villages in ten different African countries. His respected work in Africa has been endorsed by the United Nation‘s Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former President Bill Clinton, philanthropist Bill Gates, and a wide range of experts.
Millennium Promise Villages are based on the concept that an impoverished village will transform itself in five years by investing in and educating the local inhabitants about health care, food production, general school education, clean water, and the importance of an essential infrastructure. Given the proper technology and training, these villagers and villages will propel themselves forward on a path of self-sustaining economic growth. These community-led interventions will enable impoverished villages all over the world to escape extreme poverty and become educated and empowered to sustain themselves once and for all.
Please help us reach our goal. Your gift will provide urgent, effective help to those most affected by the extreme poverty. Only by working together to serve others in need can we experience the Light of fulfillment that we all desire.
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