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Sigida Keneyali: Health in Our Homes
[ Health in Our Homes ] [ Clinic ] [ Waste Management ]
Sigida Keneyali means "Health in Our Homes" in Bambara. Our elected community committees design, implement, and evaluate their own projects. They also fundraise within the community and advocate at the level of the government. Our health committee is called the Community Health Action Group.
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"Sickness is our enemy. It is the heart that fights the war." Bana ye jugu ye. Dusu de be kele ke. -Bambara proverb |
Health in Our Homes
MHOP provides in-home education and maternal/child health care to 2500 people. Our education consists of a set of images designed by locals to educate about preventative health such as nutrition, exercise, hygeine, malaria prevention, vaccination, and primary care. Click here to see our peer education materials.
Clinic
~The clinic will be constructed in 2009 and
will serve 30,000 people in the poorest part of
town. ~The Malian government will provide 50% of
the funding. ~The community will provide 10% plus the
labor and
land.
With MHOP's help the town elected and legalized a committee called the ASCOMSISOU to manage the clinic. We have developed the architects plans, received a piece of public land for the project, and are fundraising for the clinic by collecting by small contributions from every household that will be served. The clinic will be constructed in early 2009.
Download the timeline for the clinic, and the construction plans. (Coming soon).
Waste Management
Sikoroni is in desperate need of a trash disposal system!
- Trash accumulates in the small stream and in piles.
- It attracts flies that spread disease.
- When it is burned it releases thick plastic smoke that causes asthma.
MHOP will helps unite all the community groups working on trash disposal, advocates for a truck from the mayor's office, and subsidizes the equipment to increase the number of people with access to trash disposal.
The program has four parts;
- Community trash cleanup days three times
per year.
- Public dumpsters.
- Home pickup.
- Transport to the local dump.
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