Save The Villages

03/11/2017

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We spent this week in the Central Region registering and photographing over 150 Ghanaians for health insurance. They will soon be featured on the Crowdfrica website to be funded!

03/07/2017

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here one last time!! It's officially my last day of the instagram takeover! If you'd like to see more of my photos and wonderful experience you can follow along
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I would now like to introduce you to our next photographer who will be taking over the AiA instagram this coming week, !!

02/07/2017

Of the 15 million success stories under the Millennium Development Goals, will any of them help to inform the new global goals? John McArthur...

02/07/2017

01/16/2017

“A second evil which plagues the modern world is that of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, it projects it’s nagging, prehensile tentacles in lands and villages all over the world. Almost two thirds of the peoples of the world go to bed hungry at night. They are undernourished, ill-housed, and shabbily clad. Many of them have no houses or beds to sleep in. Their only beds are the sidewalks of the cities and the dusty roads of the villages. Most of these poverty-stricken children of God have never seen a physician or a dentist.”

01/02/2017

Happy New Year! We hope 2017 brings you lots of joy!

11/12/2014

Through our efforts in Ghana, we've witnessed firsthand the issue of teacher absenteeism. Here's a great effort by Making Ghanaian Girls Great - MGCubed that uses technology to deliver education across rural villages. Definitely innovation at its best.

Making Ghanaian Girls Great is a program that's delivering expert education from the country's capital to remote places using virtual teaching in the classroom.

11/01/2014

Check out the link below for a report from the World Bank on efforts to eradicate global poverty.

The Global Monitoring Report is a World Bank Group flagship report. It monitors how the world is doing in implementing the policies and actions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related development outcomes.

10/30/2014

Interesting perspective on eradicating poverty through infrastructure investments.

A rural village in Benin ©Arne Hoel/World Bank A couple years ago I returned to Dovi, my maternal village, for the first time since my middle school years in the mid-1970s. Located in the highly fertile Oueme River Valley, the village at that time was one of the most affluent parts of Central Benin,…

10/17/2014

From the World Bank: Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Currently, about 19% of the world's population lives on less than $1.25 a day and 3/5 of the extreme poor are in , , , and - these countries are critical in the campaign to . What will you to ?

Join the movement to end extreme poverty worldwide by 2030 by tackling such issues as education, clean water, gender equality, maternal health and renewable ...

08/08/2014

Here is what President Obama had to say on Africa's youth >> http://goo.gl/ZQdJhc



2014 Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit
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