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Africa has the greatest proportion of people living in extreme poverty–more than 40 percent or roughly 300 million people living on less than $1 a day. The challenges faced by the people living in sub-Saharan Africa - including low-productivity agriculture, a high disease burden and high transport costs–render African countries most vulnerable to persistent extreme poverty. This means that to collect safe drinking water and firewood for cooking, people must walk several miles every day. It means that a child in sub-Saharan Africa dies of malaria every 30 seconds and that 1 in 22 women die in childbirth (compared to 1 in 7,300 in rich countries). With these rural communities stuck in a poverty trap, they are unable to make the investments in human capital and infrastructure required to achieve self-sustaining economic growth.
The vision of Millennium Promise is to end extreme poverty by 2025 and help build sustainable communities. Its flagship initiative, The Millennium Villages project, offers a bold, innovative and holistic model for helping rural African communities lift themselves up and get at least onto the first rung of economic development. Its distinctive approach includes integrated efforts across agriculture, health, education, infrastructure, and business development. 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.
SapientNitro has made a major commitment to sponsor the transformation of a Millennium Village in Africa to become completely self-sustaining. And, we are working on communications that will drive more support for Millennium Promise around the globe so that we can end extreme poverty by 2025.
To learn more or to make a donation, please visit
millenniumpromise.org
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