Gupta also was on the boards of Millennium Promise and the Pratham India Education Initiative.

The MDGs have catalysed a significant amount of action, including new initiatives such as Millennium Promise.

Fanaro met with the founder of Millennium Promise and proposed that her idea benefit the charity.

He's the reason George Soros gave $50 million to Millennium Promise, and why the organization has been able to raise over $100 million in its short life.

Thus was born Millennium Promise.

There is no question that the efforts of Millennium Promise are making a difference in those villages.

Ultimately, Millennium Promise is hoping that the governments of these countries will pick up where the Fortune 500 companies leave off.

As such, Millennium Promise recognizes the critical importance of partnerships in addressing the many dimensions of poverty.

Millennium Promise is a founding partner of the organization Malaria No More.

In 2007, Waters became a spokesman for Millennium Promise, a non-profit organisation that helps fight extreme poverty and malaria.