Vaccinate Children and Mothers and Prevent Disease

We have completed our first round of vaccinations for the year in 30 rural villages in and around the Ouelessebougou area. In January and May the Alliance will complete two more rounds of vaccinations--totalling almost 6,000 vaccinations for the year. Village families in the rural areas of Ouelessebougou continue to face...

It's been a fantastic year for disease prevention in Ouelessebougou, but as villagers approach the rainy season they are anxious to have access to mosquito nets to protect them from the mosquito-borne disease, malaria. They are also anxious to get the last round of vaccinations for the year to protect them from other...

Dear Global Givers, The holiday season is a time to give thanks for all that we have . . . and a time to give help to those who are less fortunate than we are.  While we enjoy our holiday feasts, rural Malians fight against disease, poverty, illiteracy, and long odds to prosper or even to survive.  According to...

Thanks to donors like you, the Alliance's vaccination work in Mali continues to save lives. This year, the Alliance provided 5,369 vaccinations to women and children throughout thirty villages. These vaccinations include polio, yellow fever, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, hepatitis A, vitamin A deficiency, the flu,...

We have just finished successfully distributing more than 600 mosquito nets in Mali, and people in several villages are asking for more. We do not give them away for free, but ask for a small fee ($1 USD), in order for the people to know the value of the nets. Still, our field director in Mali tells us the people of the...

We are happy to report that 5,369 woman and children received vaccinations this fiscal year (June 2009 - July 2010) in the Ouelessebougou Region of Mali. Amazingly, the government of Mali offers free vaccinations, but they don't have a way to deliver the vaccines to rural areas. That's where we step in, providing...

A recent assessment found that 94% of children under 5 in Alliance villages have been fully vaccinated. Nationally, only about 38% of children are fully vaccinated. Further analysis showed that for every 100 children who were vaccinated, one child was spared from dying of yellow fever. What a success! that means that for...

This month, 952 women and children received vaccinations, thanks to the Ouelessebougou-Utah Alliance and many generous donors. These vaccinations change lives very dramatically and immediately. For Oumou Samake, a villager in Fadiobougou, vaccinations have changed everything. Her son died a few years ago from a...

October 2008 was full of expeditions to Mali. During our stay in Ouelessebougou, our local Health and Economic Development Coordinators prepared and presented the "healthy village workshop" in the villages of Dialakoro Keleya and Bassa. They worked with the villagers to create a sustainable health plan for which they will...

In the months of June and July, our staff in Mali have been very busy! They have been out to 12 villages to distribute close to 6000 vaccines! We are so excited about the great work they are doing.

This month the Alliance will begin its vaccination program for the year! 2,500 women and children will be vaccinated in 19 villages throughout the coming year. During an administrative trip to Mali last year I was fortunate to visit the village of Djemene. It was the first time I witnessed the administration of...

In 2006, the Alliance was able to provide 600 new mosquito nets to village families in addition to the 1,150 nets distributed in previous years. Malaria related mortality rates continue to decrease in villages where nets are accessible and education and training for proper use facilitated. This year, the Alliance was...