Health care for 30,000 slum residents in Mali Photo Gallery
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Hillside
Sikoro’s residents climb the ferrous red hillside every day to return home. The roads are terrible and access to healthcare is difficult.
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Community Center
This is the interior of the Community Center repaired and furnished by Mali Health Organizing Project in 2006, now used as a meeting location by over six community groups for a variety of educational activities.
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Muscles
Abdoulaye uses a vaccination day as an excuse to show me his shoulder muscles.
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Chief of the Village
Though he is old and speaks only in proverb, Mamadou Niaré, the Chief of the Village of Sikoro, is effectively spearheading the campaign to raise more than half the cost of the clinic from the residents of Sikoro.
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Training
Our community health action committee receives an outdoor training on health and grassroots organizing.
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Malaria Education
The CAMS, a local theater group, explains Malaria and the importance of prevention and early treatment using skits, songs, and dance.
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Sigida Keneyali Welcomes You
Sigida has begun what will hopefully be the first of many public festivals for health education
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Musokoroba Coulibaly
Musokoroba (Old Woman) Coulibaly plants her field of peanuts and vegetables in the courtyard of the community center.
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Smiles
Poverty does not mean sorrow. People in Sikoro deal with an impossible situation with grace and a permanent good will.
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The Sigida Home-Based Education Team
The Sigida team dons their new T-shirts and heads out into the field to inform people about their rights are responsibilities with respect to the clinic.
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