Yangasso, Mali: Snippets

Yangasso, Mali

6 November 2006

Snippets

Since October 2005, Yangasso Area Development Programme (ADP) has:

Water stations like this, with an apron
and a cover, help protect precious
water resources.

Education

Trained 60 volunteer teachers in teaching techniques
Taught literacy to 19 teenage sponsored children and seven members of agricultural committees

Children

Provided clothes for 350 sponsored children
Organised medical checkups for 2,650 sponsored children
Provided medicines for 1,200 sponsored children
Set up a children’s club
Trained children’s club volunteers

Health and HIV-prevention

Provided materials for a maternity ward at a health clinic
Educated 1,800 sponsored children and their families about HIV-prevention

Water and sanitation

Equipped four wells with hand pumps and drilled eight new boreholes
Trained 65 water and sanitation committees
Trained 45 volunteers to maintain borehole pumps
Equipped 18 community pump maintenance committees with tools
Trained 49 community members to construct sanitary latrines
Supported the construction of 200 household latrines
Trained 101 teachers and 173 water and sanitation committee members about trachoma, hygiene, sanitation and HIV-prevention

Agriculture and food security

Provided seeds for two vegetable gardens and continued to support 12 others
Trained 33 members of cereal bank committees in management skills

Economic development

Helped fund income-generating activities for 1,500 women’s groups and 180 income-generation groups through the Yangasso community bank

Leadership development

Provided tables and chairs for five community leadership offices
Trained community leaders to plan development activities, manage budgets, write letters and legally register social activities

Yangasso file

Yangasso project profile

YANGASSO STORY ARCHIVE
2008
Time in the garden
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Counting down
2006
Feeding frenzy?
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2005
Bank on it
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2004
Education
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2003
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Super Gran
Exodus ended
Dignity and debt
2002
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Getting into a lather

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