The Show Me Campaign supports Mbola, a remote village in northwestern Tanzania, in its effort to permanently lift itself from extreme poverty.
The Show Me Campaign works with Millennium Promise and the local Mbola community to implement practical solutions to advance this mission, including:
1. Fertilizer to improve the soil so that farmers—who are often struggling to survive through food shortages—can grow enough to eat. And, in time, have crops to sell and the beginnings of a market economy.
2. Bed nets to prevent malaria—a completely preventable disease killing millions of young children every year.
3. Free school meals to every child (often the only nutritious meal they get a day). With the promise of a meal, attendance rates rise to 100% and children—fed and thriving—are able to focus, learn and perform at incredible new levels.
4. Safe water points. Hundreds of millions of people throughout the African continent survive on contaminated, unsafe water. Millennium Villages ensure that there are many safe and safely accessible places to collect water.
5. Anti-retrovirals for people living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS does not have to be a death sentence— for years people in the US and Europe have been able to manage the disease with ARVs. Yet in Africa, where 24 million people live with AIDS, only 800,000 receive the treatment they need. Millennium Villages ensure that those in need get the drugs they require.
6. Internet connections. As the technology train leaves the station, we are making sure that the Villages are not left behind.
7. A local clinic. Villagers often have to walk miles to see a doctor only to be turned away as the hospital runa out of drugs or the patient cannot pay. Millennium Villages offer a free, fully staffed, local clinic to provide immediate health care services to all.
These interventions are life-changing for the villagers of Mbola and can be secured for $60 per villager per year over 5 years. Our goal is to raise the $1.5 million necessary to make this a reality. Please join me in this effort.