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| A Qatar Chartiy official launching the organisation’s project to help women in Mali |
During her speech at the opening ceremony, First Lady of Mali, Toure Lobo Traoré, praised the humanitarian efforts of Qatar Charity for the benefit of the poor and needy in Mali.
The opening ceremony was held in the presence of the Minister of Social Affairs Aaron Cisse, the Minister of Youth Hmi Neag, the Minister of Women, Children and Family Clabo Mary, the magistrate of Koulikoro province and the director of Qatar Charity’s Mali office.
The project’s first phase targets the Koulikoro area and will provide multi-purpose mills to 14 women’s associations. Three other associations will benefit from regular mills. Altogether 23 associations will benefit from water pumps, vehicles, and boats to collect sand and 13 associations will be provided with gardening tools, including hand trolleys, shovels, axes, and watering cans.
The project will also include drilling boreholes in two villages and provide a well to a third village to irrigate farms and orchards.
Qatar Charity carried out a number of projects in Mali between January and July 2011, including the building of 12 mosques, nine homes, two multi-service centres, eight surface wells, one clinic, an education-for-all project comprising 21 classes for women, as well as food distribution during the last Ramadan.
These projects were valued at around QR 2mn.
