Students gather at the Mayange B Primary School within the UN Millennium Village (MV) in Mayange, Rwanda, March 20, 2009. The MV started in 2005 as a development pilot project aimed to help villages lift themselves out of extreme poverty. (Mary Knox Merrill/The Christian Science Monitor/File)

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