Empowering Community Health Workers in Mali
The Aga Khan Foundation is partnering with Human Network International (HNi) to implement a four-year project entitled “Strengthening the ‘Soins Essentiels dans la Communauté’ Strategy Project (SECPro).” The project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), complemented by funds from the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. and contributions of airtime from Orange, the […]
Assessing the Food for Progress Program in Mali
In my work as a Canada-based evaluation consultant, I recently visited the Food for Progress III Program in Mali, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and implemented by the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF). This program is extremely important to people who live in Mali’s central Mopti Region, which has experienced recurring food shortages for […]
Seeing Change in Savings Groups
We continue our Giving Tuesday series, How I See Change, with the story shared by Schafer Bomstein, a regional grants manager with the Aga Khan Foundation, West Africa’s Bamako office in Mali. See how your support helps people like Schafer work with communities to improve their quality of life. Do you have a story to […]
Crisis to Opportunity: Women Gain Business and Literacy Skills to Overcome Challenges in Mali
Next in our series, Rooted in Resilience: From Crisis to Opportunity, is the story of Bintou Toulema in Mali. For more photos and stories of the Aga Khan Foundation’s partners, please download our 2013 annual report. The past two years have been difficult for Mali, following civil unrest in 2012. Amid the hardships of drought […]
Crisis to Opportunity: How Teaching Helped One Woman Fulfill a Dream
Next in our series, Rooted in Resilience: From Crisis to Opportunity, is the story of Habi Sekere in Mali. For more photos and stories of the Aga Khan Foundation’s partners, please download our 2013 annual report. For 40 years, Habi Sekere has eked out a livelihood by raising livestock at the edge of the Sahara […]
Self-Reliance in Action – in Mali
One of the best parts about my job is visiting the projects that I support in the field. Most recently, I traveled to the Mopti region of Mali for a two-day visit to see the Mali Food for Progress Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The integrated development project is implemented by […]
Market Development Ideas, from Aswan to Bamako
By Schafer Bomstein, Program Associate with the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. My recent trips to Mali and Egypt were planned with unrelated objectives, but ultimately they shared some unexpected links. I traveled to Bamako, Mali to support an evaluation of the Food for Progress Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The program links […]
USDA-Supported Programs Help Mali Farmers Adapt in Hard Times
On the day before Thanksgiving, Mary Beth Leonard, the U.S. ambassador to Mali, took a trip to see how the farm families and grower cooperatives of Mopti, eight hours northeast of Bamako, the capital, are coping in the challenging conditions of this west African nation. Making a living by farming is never easy, but if […]
Helping Malians Cope with Unrest
In Mali, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) has supported the provision of remedial education for children internally displaced as a result of the takeover of northern Mali by fundamentalist Islamic groups. This support came as part of the AKF USA grant to Mali on education, in association with the Mopti Teaching Academy, the main institution […]
Reading for Children – From Asia to Africa
During a visit to the Aga Khan Foundation USA office, Kathy Bartlett and Caroline Arnold, co-directors of Education for Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, spoke about the Reading for Children program. They discussed how the program spread from the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia to West Africa and how it exemplifies the Aga Khan Development […]