a-country: Mali
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Mali: Community based approach to bring children back in school
As part of the WNCB programme in Mali, the focal point of Soron (Fousseyni Traoré), organized an awareness meeting bringing together members of the association of mothers of students, members of the social dialogue space, members of SNEC as well as the community. The objective of the meeting was to focus on education of children…
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Mali: Support for village school and quality education
The village of Diassolon is part of the WNCB’s intervention area in the rural municipality of Domba in Mali. In February 2020 the village benefited from the support of a local NGO that built and equipped three classrooms and latrines. The village took part in the construction of these classrooms through the provision of certain…
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Mali: a story of positive change
Name: Rokia Sidibé Age : 15 years old Village: Fougatiè District : Yalancoro -soloba Region: Sikasso Income: Market gardening Rokia Sidibé, a 15-year-old girl who is very active in gold panning sites, was identified by Enda-Mali in the framework of the WNCB programme to participate in the training of young people who have been removed…
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Mali: children back in school
School closure in Mali due to Covid-19 and the socio- political crisis is a big concern. More than two million children between the age of 5 and 17 years old still do not attend school and more than half of the young people between 15 to 24 years old are illiterate. School closures have affected nearly 3.8…
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Mali: teachers take action in getting children back to school
In Mali, 12 year old Modjère and 14 year old Sekou have returned to school thanks to the efforts of their teacher, Fousseyni Traore. The young boy and the young girl had left the village of Soron (Sikasso region, 195km from Bamako) several months ago because of the closure of schools due to a teachers’…
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COVID-19 crisis in the Work: No Child’s Business programme
The COVID-19 pandemic has a large impact on WNCB’s target population and the way we will implement our programme. Through this initial assessment with our country teams it is now becoming clear that next to the catastrophic health crisis, the mitigating actions to the pandemic in the various contexts have hugely affected our local communities…
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Mali: Two children removed from a gold panning site
Two children have been brought in early June 2020, without their parents’ knowledge, by a shepherd in transit to the gold panning site of Tingrela to work there. Tingrela is a town in Ivory Coast but that borders Mali. Each of the two children is expected to receive twenty thousand CFA francs as a monthly…
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Programme brochure
The impact that the Alliance aims to achieve with this programme is that children and youth are free from child labour and enjoy their rights to quality education and (future) decent work.
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Country map & sectors
An overview of the six countries where WNCB works towards eliminating child labour and along five key sectors that have a high incidence of child labour and importance in the (economic) context of the six countries. Moreover, these sectors are relevant for responsible businesses/sustainable production.
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Mali: Update Covid-19
In Mali the first COVID-19 cases have only been confirmed last week. The numbers are low but to prevent the virus from spreading, the government has immediately declared a state or emergency to act on this. Schools are closed and activities are for now postponed. In the meantime our partners keep a close contact on…