Soros gives $50 mln to tackle African poverty

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Soros gives $50 mln to tackle African poverty
Wed Sep 13, 1:12 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros pledged $50 million on Wednesday to help the United Nations tackle extreme poverty and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The money will be spent on the Millennium Villages project, which provides bed nets to stop mosquitoes that carry malaria, fertilizers to replenish depleted soils, school lunches for malnourished children and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.

The project is trying to implement on a rural level the U.N.'s eight Millennium Development Goals for 2015 which range from cutting extreme poverty in half to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education.

"This is a very important project. It's meant to serve as a prototype that can be scaled up. If it's successful, it can really be scaled up and make a major impact on rural poverty in Africa," Soros told Reuters.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060913/bs_nm/life_africa_villages_dc

[Fridays Child]

1. Now, do you see what a TERRIBLE influence he is? What a force for evil?

Shit. I must have been channeling Bill O'Reilly, for a second, there.

[RethugAssKicker]

2. Soros; A truly GREAT man !

[JDPriestly]

3. He should donate the money to create a Democratic think tank

If we lose our democracy in America and the right-wingers take total charge, poverty of Sub-Saharan Africa won't make any difference. We need a think tank to educate people and to support democracy right here.