Our Aim

THE PROBLEMS:

1)    SLUM DEADLOCK:

• Slum residents have few rights.  Most are squatters who receive little help from their governments.
• Communities refuse to pay taxes until the government provides services, and the government refuses to provide services until the communities pay taxes.

2)    HEALTH CRISIS:

• People die of preventable diseases because of crowding and a lack of sanitation and health care.

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OUR SOLUTION:

Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) acts as a catalyst to bring slum residents and their governments together. When community committees (CCs) learn to design, implement, and evaluate their own projects, they invest in health and ask their governments to do the same.

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OUR GOALS:

1) To create the first universal primary care system in Mali with a model clinic and innovation trial center.

2) To increase government investment in health at the local and national levels.

"When the world falls asleep, children born to leadership wake it up." Duniya mana sunogo mongonyumandenw b'a lakunun. - Bambara proverb