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 A Clear Vision for Lyari
January 2010
The vision of the Millennium team in Lyari, Pakistan is monumental. Like all visions, it takes hard work and determination to see it through. This Millennium team has the ability to work hard as well as the determination to keep working when problems appear insurmountable. They know that vision becomes reality step by step, day by day, and person by person.
Karachi, Pakistan is a huge, bustling city of 16 million. Lyari, one of Karachi’s oldest migrant communities, is home to 1.5 million people - all within a six square mile area. A majority of Lyari’s residents are originally from Baluchistan.
As the Lyari community grew the infrastructure could not keep pace. It is at best substandard. Actually, the drinking water and sanitation systems are old and crumbling, perhaps the worst in Karachi. As in many underserved neighborhoods, the residents of Lyari struggle with rampant unemployment, drugs and crime. They lack quality health services, primary education, and adequate housing.
The Millennium vision encompasses not just the development of community but also training and equipping of members of the community. The hope is to help the people of Lyari work together to identify their needs, create sustainable communities and have an influence in the decisions which affect their lives.
We look for programs that will improve the quality of life
in people's homes, in their communities
in the wider society where they live, work and play.
Current projects include:
English Language Classes
Football Coaches Training Program
Economic Development
Health Camps
Ladies Development Center
Faces of Lyari
 
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Change For Hope
October 2011
Your small change does big things to give hope to children in Nepal
Nepal is land of contrasts, a land of majestic beauty as well as abject poverty. A country where there are no social services or food stamps available to help the poor, the abused or the homeless. There is very little hope of ever breaking out o f the cycle of poverty that has engulfed so many.
As always, women and children are the most vulnerable. Sometimes the children of extremely poor or broken families, as well as true orphans, are sent to orphanages or group homes so that they might have a chance at a better life. A good orphanage will provide food and basic necessities, but most importantly they will send the children to school and provide a caring, safe environment for them.
A new Millennium partner, ChangeForHope, has been traveling to and working in Nepal since 2005. As the founder of ChangeForHope (CFH), Pam is committed to helping families break the cycle of poverty by through humanitarian aid such as clothing, food, medical care and supplies, education, transportation, and start up business funding. Although she does not live in Nepal, she has found a way, through annual trips lasting from one to four months, to make a difference in the lives of more than fifty children and adult staff in these last 6 years. Living on site, she gains an intimate understanding of what their needs are and how CFH might work with the orphanage and local community to meet those needs.
This program has helped bring about significant changes at one children’s home outside of Kathmandu. Those changes were very large and very small, but all mean a better standard of living for the children. An especially important ‘large’ item: sustainable solar lighting panels supplying electricity to all four floors, hallways and bathrooms. Another was a generator was purchased and set up to ensure electricity for pumping water.
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Clean Water for Healthy Minds and Bodies
Spring 2009
In the spring of 2009 Millennium had the opportunity to hold two training seminars in Northern India. One addressed the health of all villagers and the other introduced new teaching methods for teachers.
 It has been reported that 80% of the sickness and disease in the world is the result of unsafe, contaminated drinking water.
Common maladies like acid reflux and lethargy can be treated by simply drinking more water. But what if your water is polluted?
If it is, it can do more harm than good. It can leave you dehydrated and sluggish. It can make it nearly impossible to work, study or achieve anything beyond mere survival.
Some contaminated drinking water may cause dysentery which can run through whole families and villages wreaking havoc and death.
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The Republic of India, the second most populous country in the world, dominates the South Asian subcontinent. The land is varied: seacoasts on three sides, the Deccan Plateau in the south, the plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, and the majestic Himalayas in north. The culture, influenced by ancient trade routes and vast empires, is rich and colorful. |
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JK Millennium Medical Aid and Resource Center Opens
A Model of Earthquake Resistant Construction
The First of its Kind in the Area
Since the devastating October 2005 earthquake in Northern India, when buildings, bridges, roads and even entire hillsides collapsed, there has been a renewed effort and determination to build to safer standards. Designed to be a model of earthquake resistant construction, the first of its kind in the area, the JK Millennium Medical Aid and Resource Center was inaugurated On November 7, 2009.
Much of the infrastructure in this remote corner of India, including clinics, hospitals, schools and administrative buildings were destroyed in that horrendous 2005 quake. As survivors struggled to bury their dead and tend to their wounded, they had to immediately begin clearing the rubble and erecting some kind of shelter before the advance of winter.
Protection for families and their farm animals was of paramount importance. After surviving the earthquake, their lives were again at risk. The onset of winter in the high mountains in Northern India can be sudden, swift and harsh.
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