A new Millennium Village to help 30,000 poor villagers to escape poverty in northern Ghana has been launched with support from the Governments of the United Kingdom (UK) and Ghana. The new Millennium Village site includes communities in some of the poorest sections of the West-Mamprusi District and Builsa District of the Northern Region and Upper East Region respectively.
Ghanaian President John Mahama, UK International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and other Ghana government officials formally launched the Millennium Village. While the number of people living in poverty in southern Ghana has decreased by 2.5 million over the past 20 years, it has increased in the North by almost one million, with the majority of people living below the poverty line
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