Ugunja: Millennium village still in poverty
- Posted on Thursday 15 July 2010 - 21:02Njeri Meresa, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Unguja, KenyaDespite the fact that the Millennium project is trying to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, some of the community members at Sauri Millennium Village are still in extreme poverty level.Loading video...‘Hunger made me run away from Sauri at some point, and when I came back, I found that Millennium project team was giving widows fertilizers, but me I was never given so I just used my crude way of planting. Am not going to get harvest anything’, says Selline Juma.
A widow taking care of 8 children, and leaving in a ten by ten house, is leaving in a very pathetic way as her house leaks so much that when it rains they have to sit down and look for polythene papers to cover themselves.
One widow talked to voices of Africa and said that, she leaved with 16 orphans. The project gave her fertilizer first season and educated for her 2 children who are now out looking for job. At the moment she stays with 11 orphans. She recalls. UNICEF who came to her aid recently and built for her a house after seeing the condition at which she was leaving.
Pastor George Oyomba therefore feels that, for the Millennium projects to succeed, the Millennium team (staffs from Kenya) should be transferred all of them, and policy be reviewed.
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