Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children

by Arts To End Genocide
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children
Help Build a Future for IDP Women & Children

Project Report | Apr 22, 2019
Expanding Our Medical Mission

By Mitch Lewis | Executive Director

We at ATEG are all very proud of the many folks who have contributed to the success of the City of Children’s Clinic of Mali. It took the combined efforts of many caring individuals, organizations and institutions to enable us to establish our free clinic to serve the 6,000 street children of Bamako.

Our initial mission was to treat children who had medical conditions as a result of the lack of footwear. However, we soon discovered that large numbers of children we were seeing, had additional serious, but treatable conditions. The most prevalent cases were malaria and bilharzia (a parasitic infection usually caused by drinking contaminated water.) We also found health issues among children who were living in waste disposal sites. We therefore expanded our mission to also provide medical help to these children. In one particular case, we treated a young boy with an advanced case of malaria. The physician told us that if he hadn’t been treated that day, by the next day he would have died. We have been also been distributing treated bed nets as well as medicine.

The Mali Ministry of Health has been most supportive of our program. During the month of April they gave us 4 full time physicians. Working at the clinic from early morning into the evening, thus far they have examined 2,700 children. At the end of April, the number will far exceed 3,000 children. The April Outreach Campaign was covered on Mali national TV as well as many other media outlets.

One of our wonderful donors has provided funding for us to establish a food program, whereby every child who visits for an examination, is given a nutritional meal. They are also given a pair of KLEM shoes.

We are hopeful that in the future we will be able to expand the program even further. Our next step is to establish a series of satellite clinics in rural villages near Bamako. Support from the GlobalGiving community is always welcome. Thank you.

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Jan 24, 2019
Empowering African Women

By Mitch Lewis | Executive Director

Oct 29, 2018
Opening of the Bamako, Mali Clinic

By Mitch Lewis | Executive Director

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Arts To End Genocide

Location: New Bern, NC - USA
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Mitch Lewis
New Bern , NC United States

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