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 provided skills training for the women and helped them form a Women's Cooperative, delivered medical care, provided food distribution and childhood education.
For the past 6 years our primary focus has been on residents of the Falhadje Camp, which was built on a garbage dump. On September17 jihadi terrorists attacked the national airport in Bamako and the Police Training Academy. The Malian government determined that some of these terrorists had infiltrated the Faladje IDP Camp and may have been involved in the attack. They therefore decided to close the camp and relocate the IDPs back to Mopti, where they had fled a dozen years ago, even though it is
Although they will be forced to leave Faladje, most of the members of the Women's Cooperative will not go to Mopti, and are planning to stay in Bamako. ATEG has disassembled their work facility and has stored it along with the sewing machines and supplies. ATEG plans to reassemble it on a site in Bamako. Through the childhood education program, ATEG sent a group of children through the first grade. If they were not in school, they would be on the streets of Bamako begging.
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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