Two villages in Kenya, a third in Tanzania and a fourth in Uganda will share a $100 million aid investment.
Billionaire financier George Soros announced last week that he is contributing $50 million to the Millennium Villages Project, a non-governmental initiative intended to show that closely focused development projects can alleviate severe poverty within a few years.
Mbola in Uyui district is described by project organisers as “one of the poorest villages in Tanzania.”
Similarly, about half the households in Ruhiira Parish in southwestern Uganda earn less than one dollar a day, and more than 80 per cent of local residents are subsistence farmers.