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Massive Earthquake Devastates Haiti.
Emergency Response: Light Haiti Project takes on a new urgency
In September of 2009, Millennium began partnering with the Light Haiti Project. Our goal: to provide light to the poor in Haiti. Portable solar lights will enhance lives in a transforming way that we simply take for granted.
The devastating January 12 earthquake has given this project a new sense of urgency. The need for light is greater than ever.
Funding is now crucial to get the much needed lights on a fast track to Haiti.
Donations can be made from the Millennium site by clicking on Donate Now in the top menu bar. Simply check Other and write in the project name: Light Haiti. Canadian donors can donate HERE by selecting 7. Light haiti Project or simply type "Haiti" in the message to charity.
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From the Rift Valley to Haiti
Our portable solar lights are already at work in many places in the world where electricity is not unreliable or even nonexistent. Laura, a LightHaiti donor who has experience with our lights in Africa, knows how much help they will be to the Haitian people as they begin the long road to recovery after the Jan12 earthquake.
I appreciate your program so much. I volunteer each year at Rift Valley Children's Village [in Tanzania] and see your lights being put to great use. I give your lights as gifts whenever I have the chance.
Take care, Laura A.
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Under
Construction
As
the New Year begins, Millennium is making a new beginning.
We have been busy redesigning and updating our website.
Check
back soon to see the new look and read updated
stories of how Millennium teams are impacting our world.
Please note that
in the meantime this site is still
fully operational and can accept online donations.
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We are at work
in....
Darfur
Imagine for a moment that you are struggling to survive
in a harsh corner of the world. You struggle through
recurrent droughts. You struggle through repeated
tribal incursions and bandits. You struggle through
ongoing rebellions, bombings and raids. You are
struggling to survive in Darfur.
Since July 2005 Millennium field workers and partners in
Northern Darfur have remained dauntless in their efforts
to bring help to overwhelming numbers of people in need.
Despite carjackings (yes, we’ve lost more than one
vehicle this way), security issues and funding
challenges we have continued to keep our relief and
development programs afloat. But we cannot do it alone.
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Waiting to see a doctor at the mobile
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There
are many Internally Displaced People (IDP) in camps in
Darfur, and they receive the lion’s share of
assistance. Millennium teams target the people who have
stayed in their rural villages. At times, many were
driven out of their homes, but returned to rebuild after
the wave of destruction passed. It is this host
population that will rebuild and reestablish their
communities when peace is finally restored to Darfur.
Our
current focus is on the need for medical care and basic
community health training, and it is a huge need.
Through our medical program, and when security allows,
we travel weekly to three outlying villages to hold
medical clinics. People will walk for hours to wait in
line in the hope of being seen by a nurse or doctor.
Our pharmacy travels with us as do medical assistants
and those who hold classes in basic community health and
hygiene.
Working with the Ministry of Health and other aid
agencies we estimate that this year our project will
benefit over 150,000 people through vaccinations,
micronutrient and vitamin supplements, primary
healthcare and first aid, health and hygiene training,
prenatal and postnatal care, malaria prevention and
treatment.
As with any Millennium project, we want our work to help
create the conditions which enable people to realize a
life of dignity and purpose. The goal is for people to
be responsible for their own wellbeing, to see them
empowered to sustain their own development. But first
people must be healthy.
This
much needed program is in dire need of funds. While
Darfur has captured the world’s attention, it is still a
very rough, dangerous place. Many in outlying areas are
outside the scope of most aid organizations, and as a
result they struggle against great odds.
If you can help keep maintain this project and give the
gift of health to people in northern Darfur, please
visit our Donate Now page and designate Darfur Relief.
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India
One of the many struggles for nomadic people like Gujjars and Bakarwals
in the mountains of northern India is having enough clean water. These
nomads follow their flocks as they have for generations, depending on
their herds for food, clothing, and status in their tribe. Clean water
for the animals is just as important to them as water for themselves.
Our team in this area is field testing a simple machine that purifies
200 liters of water per minute. The process separates salt into its
component parts. The chlorine becomes a gas that is used to kill the
microbes that make people sick.
Amoebic and bacterial dysentery, giardia, and worms are 4 of the most
common health problems in the region. This portable, easily assembled
machine costs roughly $1000 per unit and if it tests as predicted will
provide a very good solution to this age old problem.
Funding is currently needed for at least 5 more test units. To donate
on line, Click here.
Go to the Projects page for
more information on our work in India.
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Millennium is working to add laboratory
skills
to traditional teaching methods
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Languishing at the Bottom of Yemen’s Ladder
Millennium continues to work with the poorest of the
poor in Yemen. The Projects page will
tell you about our health care projects in Saana’s largest slum
area.
To gain a better understanding about who the people known as “Al Akhdam”
(the servants) who live in this massive slum area,
click here
to read the article by Robert F. Worth, published in the New York
Times February 27, 2008.
Future Scientists of Yemen
Millennium
is helping a generation of science teachers and students by providing
much needed training and equipment for laboratory experimentation.
Click here to read more on what Millennium
is doing in this region. |
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Indonesia
With teams already on the ground, Millennium Relief
and Development Services was one of the first NGOs able to
respond to this disaster. They immediately purchased water
pumps and began pumping over 100 contaminated wells throughout
villages. Because of their knowledge of the language and
culture they became key players in communication between the
local people and the many foreign aid companies in the area.
A Millennium office was opened in a village affected by the
tsunami. This village had become home to thousands of
displaced people from neighboring towns.
Click here to read
more about what Millennium is doing in this Region. |
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Iraq
May 10, 2006: Spring is here again in
Northern Iraq, days are lengthening, rains have come, and green is all
around. Signs are everywhere that normal life continues on, though
insurgent attacks are still hampering reconstruction. As news media
report that funds must be diverted from development to meet rising
security costs, Millennium’s commitment to assist in Iraq’s development
remains unchanged. Millennium is thriving in Iraq, thriving to defend a
chance at normal life in practical ways.
Click here to read more about
what Millennium is doing in this region. |
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To see other locations where Millennium is at
work around the world
click on
Projects or
Regions at the
top of this and every page.
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Shop every day at 350 national retailers through
www.buyforcharity.com and designate
Millennium to receive a portion of the proceeds.
Simply register, at no charge, on the
www.buyforcharity.com web site and select
Millennium under the Relief Efforts category.
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