Soros Invests in African Villages
US billionaire George
Soros pledged $50 million dollars over the next five years to the United Nations’ Millennium Villages Project
- a program to help lift African villages out of poverty.
Programs of the project
include providing treatments for people living with HIV/AIDS, bed nets to stop the spread of malaria,
fertilizers for depleted soil and school lunches for malnourished children.
From Reuters, Wednesday, September 13, 2006:
This is a very important project…If it’s successful, it can really be scaled up and make a major impact on
rural poverty in Africa,” Soros told Reuters.
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