Making Merry With Menstrual Kits? Why Yes We Are!

If you are in Salt Lake or surrounding areas, I hope you’ll join me and a group of great women (and supportive men) for a night of connection and service. We’re inviting members of our 50 Women Campaign and those who are interested in learning more about 50 Women and our Girls Project to come together to assemble menstrual kits for our girls while learning more about girls’ education.

Half Way There: Let's Get 300 Textbooks to Mali's Students!

Wow! Thank you to everyone who has donated to our Back to School Textbook Drive so far. Because of you, we are nearly half way to our goal of providing 300 textbooks to students in Mali. If you haven’t got involved yet, please join us in the cheapest feel-good activity you can find — just a $10 donation provides a much-needed textbook.

Get to Know Mali Rising's Mt Logan Middle School

Located in the tiny village of Mamarasso, Mali, the Mt. Logan Middle School was completed in 2013 with the help of fundraising efforts from the students of Mt. Logan Middle located in Logan, Utah. Learn a little bit about this school, its village, and its students from our intern Sam.

Teacher Peer Meetings Help Teachers Help Each Other

The school year in Mali is now in full swing, so the work of our Mali staff is also geared up! This is particularly true for our Teacher Project Coordinator, Adama, who is hard at work helping our teachers. Last week, he hosted his first ever Teacher Peer Meeting, designed to help our teachers help each other.

Calling All U.S. Students -- Make the Case for Caring!

It’s that time of year — time for students around the United States to share their ideas with us! Today we announce the theme for our annual Make the Case for Caring Essay contest. This contest asks for thoughtful insights on an international development issue from high school students and, for the first time this year, middle school students! Find out what this year’s theme is…

Girls Project Grows & Thrives

As announced this summer, our successful Girls Project is growing! After three years of piloting the Project in three villages, as school opened this fall we launched the Project in five new villages. This expansion has allowed us to nearly DOUBLE the young women benefiting from our intensive work. With all 8 villages, this year we will work with 362 young women to help them get in school, stay in school, and thrive.

Boulaye Benefits From Teacher Peer Meetings

I am Boulaye Diawara, I have been teaching French in the middle school of Seguesona since 2016, but I started teaching in 2008. I am 34 and I really like my teaching job. What makes me like it even more is because I am always in contact with kids and enjoy helping them when it comes to studying….