Blue Chip Foundation Visits Mayange, Rwanda for MVP Documentary

Mayange, Rwanda—Blue Chip Foundation founder  Jennifer Gross made her second trip to Rwanda to document the Millennium Villages Project with VII Association photographer Gary Knight and his wife, videographer Fiona Turner.

“Because MVP is a holistic approach to alleviating poverty, it takes time and perspective to discern the magnitude of all of the moving parts that make up this economic model. We were able to document progress in health care, education, infrastructure and agriculture,” said Gross.
Mayange suffers from declining soil fertility and only sporadic rainfall, which puts its entire population at a disadvantage.

“Unlike most of rural Rwanda, where individual homesteads are scattered across the hilly landscape, Mayange has several umudugudus, or settlements, of closely spaced dwellings, which the government built to house returnees after the 1994 genocide,” according to  Millennium Villages Project (MVP). Gross, Knight, and Turner observed and documented several improvements to the community emplaced by MVP.

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