by Tara Hopkins | Nov 2, 2020 | Community Health Workers
Back in May, we shared the experience of Kadidiatou, one of our community health worker leaders, as she worked hard to keep her family and the families she serves as a community health worker (CHW) safe from COVID-19. As a CHW and supervisor for the other Mali Health...
by Tara Hopkins | Mar 21, 2020 | Mali Health
The limited resources available in Mali make it extremely vulnerable to COVID-19. The best chance that Mali has is to prevent an outbreak before it begins, so that is our focus. If you can, we hope you will contribute, or buy a bar of soap, and together we will help...
by Tara Hopkins | Dec 4, 2019 | Health Promotion and Community Outreach, Mali Health
Mali Health believes in building on a community’s existing resources. We do not want to replace them, because we want to enhance them. Often, a community’s greatest resource is its residents – people deeply committed to improving life for their families and neighbors....
by Tara Hopkins | Jun 4, 2019 | Health Promotion and Community Outreach, Learning, Women-Led Health Financing
Joe and Tara visited Mali in February and were honored to host a few American guests for an eventful week, including the celebration of our team of community health workers, and their amazing accomplishment of not having lost a single mother or child in their care in...
by Tara Hopkins | Feb 27, 2019 | Learning, Women-Led Health Financing
In November 2018, Mali Health officially became a partner in the WomenConnect Challenge (WCC) – a USAID initiative intended to “bridge the digital gender divide.” Here’s a full summary of our pilot project. For so many reasons, this was an unlikely place to find...
