In the savanna of central Mali where rainfall is unreliable, water is precious and clean water rare. Relying on unprotected water sources for drinking and cooking, most of the community in the Millennium Village of Tiby has been constantly at risk of exposure to waterborne disease, which can lead to serious illness and even death.
Today, an ambitious new piped water system is changing this situation, bringing safer water to more convenient locations throughout the Millennium Village. Read the rest . . . [more]
Initiative 166 Council Day, a special event organized by Mali’s Commission for Food Security and its partners, was celebrated on 14-16 April 2010 in Bamako and Segou. This event was part of the celebration of the National Association of Malian Municipalities and was chaired by Mr. Boubacar Sow, Secretary General of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Local Government.
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As the Millennium Villages Project moves toward its second 5 years, the vision of the project, of jump-starting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the poorest countries, is becoming reality. With existing villages showing “remarkable results,” several countries have developed bold plans to scale up the successful interventions to the national level. The MDG scale-up phase based on the lessons learned of the MVs is on the verge of taking off, notably in Mali and Nigeria, and the government . . . [more]
A partnership between buildOn and the Millennium Villages project has completed 30 new schools in Mali. Together these 30 schools will provide access to education for up to 4,500 kids in the Mali Millennium Villages cluster. For this project, community members contributed over 81,000 volunteer work days to complete the schools, accounting for all of the volunteer labor needed to build the classrooms, latrines and offices. This is an average of more than . . . [more]
In April 2009, the Millennium Villages project completed construction of a new road in Mali. Following alongside the Niger River, the road connects the Tiby, Mali cluster of Millennium Villages with health services and markets in the town of Markala.
Before construction of the new road there was no direct route from the Tiby cluster to Markala. Patients with medical emergencies had to travel 70km – more than an hour drive – to reach the referral hospital . . . [more]
Infrastructure • Tiby, Mali
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