MILLENNIUM VILLAGE HAITI
The Millennium Village Haiti is a community driven development project aimed at lifting developing country villages out of the extreme poverty trap that afflicts more than one billion people worldwide. The Millennium Village project plans to provide early successes on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals— clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women — by 2015.
Earth Institute scientists and development experts in agriculture, nutrition and health, economics, energy, water, environment and information technology are working with local communities and governments to apply a proven, integrated package of interventions to help villages get out of extreme poverty. As Millennium Villages achieve successes, work with national governments and local organizations to scale up these poverty-reducing measures will be undertaken.
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, in partnership with UNDP and the University of Miami Global Institute for Community Health and Development are working with governments, donors, civil society and other partner organizations to support three types of Millennium Villages in hunger hotspots across the developing world. The aim of these initiatives is to (i) provide rigorous proof of concept for integrated, community-based, low-cost interventions to meet the Millennium Development Goals, (ii) identify mechanisms for national-level scaling up of community-based interventions to support the design of national MDG-based development strategies, and (iii) engage governments and donors in a 10-year scaling-up effort across Africa and other hunger hotspots in Latin America and Asia.
Fondation Festival Film Jakmèl
Fondation Festival Film Jakmèl (FFFJ) uses cinema and integrated educational and cultural programming to entertain, educate and empower the Haitian people while promoting national cinema and arts, creating jobs, stimulating the regional economy, increasing tourism and sharing insights for sustainable long term development. FFFJ hosts Haiti's international film festival which attracts over 80,000 viewers and has generated
$1.5M in regional economic activity. The 4th Edition will take place November 22-29, 2008.
Festival week is a nonstop multimedia event featuring film screenings, concerts and performances, educational programs, panel
discussions, exhibitions and celebrations. An extraordinary group of directors, producers, actors, musicians, artists, sponsors and NGOs gather with the local community, transforming Jacmel into an oasis of discovery, learning and celebration. In addition to the the Festival, the foundation offers professional training programs for aspiring local filmmakers and technicians. In partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Education, FFFJ hosts educational screenings for the National Schools of Jacmel.
To learn more visit; www.festivalfilmjakmel.com