In the village of Nabari on northern Ghana's dry savanna, 80-year-old Wudana Dokurugu lives with other widows in a clump of mud huts. They farm maize and soybeans in nutrient-poor soil, and say their food never lasts to the next harvest.
Millennium Villages are designed to show how aid and smart, simple technology can advance the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals of dramatically reducing global poverty and boosting education, gender equality and health by 2015.
