Organization:

Ouelessebougou Alliance (OA)

An organization working in partnership with local villagers to transform the quality of life in the Ouelessebougou region of Mali, West Africa by delivering sustainable programs in health and education.

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Project Location:

Ouelessebougou region, Mali, West Africa

Bastion: Helping to Help
Photo courtesy of Ouelessebougou Alliance
Bastion: Helping to Help
Photo courtesy of Ouelessebougou Alliance.

Objectives:

  1. To provide one round of vaccinations for 4,300 children. Vaccinations are given for the following 9 life-threatening diseases: polio, yellow fever, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, hepatitis A, vitamin A deficiency, the flu, and tetanus.
  2. The government provides the vaccines and OA partners with the local hospital to select the villages.
  3. OA pays for the supervisor and the vaccinator to administer the vaccines as well as the transport by motorbike to the approximately 70-90 villages.

Beneficiaries:

Children under 5 in the Koulikoro and Sikasso region of the Ouelessebugou commune in Mali.

Bastion: Helping to Help
Photo courtesy of Ouelessebougou Alliance.
Bastion: Helping to Help
Photo courtesy of Ouelessebougou Alliance.
Bastion: Helping to Help
Photo courtesy of Ouelessebougou Alliance.
Bastion: Helping to Help
Photo courtesy of Ouelessebougou Alliance.

Status:

Completed

Sector:

Children Health

Grant:

Under $10,000

Reports:

Complying with the agreement brokered by Bastion between the donor and Ouelessebougou Alliance, the organization delivered a report after three months and a final report at the end of the project.

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Dates:

Started: October 2016

Finished: February 2017

Bastion: Helping to Help