Prince pledges to improve impoverished village
Ratrian, an extremely poor village in north Pakistan has only the necessities of survival. Villagers have limited access to electricity, and occasionally are able to use a hand pump to get water. But help may be on the way for Ratrian.
Prince Rafeh Malik inherited the village from his father on his 18th birthday. While sitting with a friend in a cafe' in Islamabad, he decided to apply eight basic targets for developing countries (called the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations) to Ratrian - just one village - in hopes to improve the quality of life there. Rafeh says it will be difficult to sell the idea to his father, King Malik Atta Mohammad, but he is prepared to do so.
"Unless you see something happen before you - something concrete - only then will you believe it," he says. "At present, it is all in the air."
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