September 28, 2006

Africa Project to Receive $50-Million; Other Big Gifts

Nine institutions have received big gifts:

  • The financier George Soros pledged $50-million over five years to Millennium Promise Alliance, in New York, to support the Millennium Villages Project, an effort to fight poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. This project works in 79 villages in 10 countries to ease hunger, advocate women's rights, improve education and health care, and achieve other goals aimed at improving living conditions in Africa over the next five

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