ATEG is running a number of programs to improve the lives of women and children in Bamako, Mali which is one of the world's poorest countries. Our beneficiaries are internally displaced persons (IDP)s who fled terrorism in Central Mali. ATEG provides skills training for the women and helped them form a Women's Cooperative, delivers medical care, provides food distribution and childhood education.
Although ATEG runs programs in several IDP Camps, our focus has been on the Faladje Camp, built on a garbage dump. Recently the Malian government forced the IDPs to leave by bulldozing the site. Our beneficiaries are now scattered around Bamako, some living with relatives, some in abandoned housing, some on the streets. Logistically this is quite challenging as we continue of food distribution program and find a viable location for them to continue working in the vocations we have taught them.
Our partner in Mali, ADICOM, is located in the commercial area of Bamako. They are conducting the food distribution from their offices. They have offered, with ATEGs help, to expand their facilities to provide space for the women to continue their trades, and for other women to be trained. Their location is ideal for selling the products and services of our women.
The skills training program first phase taught women sewing. In the second phase, through a P&G Alumni Foundation grant, another group learned milk processing, saponification, henna and agribusiness. Almost all of the children are continuing their education. Their families have committed to having their children continue down this life-changing path. The ATEG/Rotary Children's Clinic continues to provide free medical care, at the clinic and off-site at IDP Camps, orphanages and schools.
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