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Our Vision
[ The Problems ] [ The Solution ] [ Our Goal ]
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"There is medicine for headaches, but not for unjustified
antipathy." |
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.
- This deadlock continues indefinitely, leading to terrible infrastructure, crippling poverty, and poor health.
2) HEALTH CRISIS:
- People die of preventable diseases because of crowding and a lack of sanitation and health care.
OUR
SOLUTION:
Mali Health
Organizing Project (MHOP) acts as a catalyst to
bring slum residents and their governments
together.
MHOP has a unique system of
four tools to break down the slum deadlock;
accountability, communication, seed funding,
and health organizing.
People
care strongly about health, so we use health as
a tool to organize communities. 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.
OUR GOAL:
Our aim is
to allow slums to create their own health care
solutions, and ultimately see both the
government and the slum invest in health and
development without outside assistance.