Blue Chip Foundation Founder Jennifer Gross Visits Potou, Senegal | Millennium Development Goals

Potou, Senegal— Blue Chip Foundation founder Jennifer Gross and VII Association filmmaker Danny Wilcox Frazier visited Potou to document the Millennium Villages Project’s progress in the in August, focusing on a cluster of six villages in Senegal’s Niayes Zone. Gross’s group, which included Ousmane Mbaye and Nick Loomis of Millennium Promise and Gina Ackerman of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, was able to document tremendous progress within the area since the  Millennium Villages Project ( MVP ) began its interventions.

“We saw nothing but progress in Potou,” says Jennifer Gross. “They’re using genetically modified seeds to grow onions, and everybody we talked to was having crops come up three or four times a year instead of one or two. All of the onions are healthy, and they’re selling nationally on a wide scale now in Senegal. It was awesome.”

Poor sanitation, including household refuse and industrial waste products, have created significant health risks for Potou’s population. Access to healthcare has traditionally been a challenge, so Gross, Frazier and the rest of the team traveled through the area with a community health worker to evaluate the new standards MVP was helping villagers meet.

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