Health Projects

Drinking Wells

The Alliance works with villagers who lack nearby, clean drinking water. Drinking wells promote improved health and sanitation. The newest drinking wells are near schools, which provide children access to water throughout the school day. The Alliance trains villagers to maintain more than 100 wells built by the Alliance and villages over the past 16 years. The Alliance provides the material, equipment, and supervision, plus casting concrete cylinders to line the well so it won’t collapse during the rainy season, and caps drinking wells for sanitation. Villagers dig 50-100 foot drinking wells to a safe depth in the sandy soil.

Health Training / Fight Malaria and Disease

The Alliance works year-round with volunteer village health workers and midwives to teach sanitation and disease prevention. The Alliance provides training for 24 village health agents and 36 midwives. Regular follow-up training is provided in 24 villages. Training addresses AIDS, malaria, trachoma, hygiene, sanitation, etc A pharmacy is open weekly to health agents; providing villagers with affordable medicine. Latrines and hand washing stations are maintained at village schools, teaching children how to be sanitary.

Mosquito Netting

Over 1,150 mosquito nets are purchased and distributed to villagers at a discounted rate each year. Training is provided to teach the proper use and health benefits of the nets.

Vaccinations

The Mali government does not have the capacity to vaccinate all Malian children, so it relies on other organizations to help fund and administer immunizations. The Alliance offers staff, vehicles and funds to provide more than 7,500 vaccinations. 2,500 children and women of childbearing ages are immunized each year.