What are some examples of interventions within the Millennium Villages?
The needs of each villagewhile uniquecan be met by implementing solutions that are both practical and affordable. For example: • Agricultural and agro-forestry techniques dramatically increase farm production while enhancing the environment. • Vitamin and mineral supplements tackle malnutrition and make children stronger. • Essential health services provide critical, life-saving medicines and raise productivity. • Targeted investments relieve burdens on women : improved access to water and fuel wood, accessible clinics, mills for grain, and trucking and ambulance services. • Free, daily school lunches using locally produced food support children’s nutrition, learning capacity, and school attendance while at the same time increase demand for locally produced food. • Access to anti-retroviral medicines keeps people with HIV/AIDS alive in poor countries just as they do in rich ones. • Sleeping under an insecticide-treated bed net prevents children from getting malaria, and immunizations l
