Do you ever think “I wish I had the time to volunteer” or “I would love to do that, but I don’t think I can anymore”? Volunteer Nancy wants to tell you “Do what you can when you can. Every little bit helps.” I recently spoke with Nancy about her week-long experience volunteering for Mali Rising. While visiting family in Salt Lake City in March…
Speech Up! Contest Open for Entries
Valiant Hearts: Banko's Drive to Build a School
Alumnae In College Today Because of Our Supporters
One of the most uplifting events for us here at Mali Rising is when we find one of our graduates who is going on to big things. Last week, our Construction Manager Alou shared the story of one such alumnae with me. I wanted to share Djènèba’s story with you today, because we can all use a little uplifting these days…
Got Something to Say? Speech Up!
COVID-19 Changes the Feel of Village Visits
Girls Helping Girls: Peers Make the Difference!
Girl Leaders are young women from our partner villages who are trained by Mali Rising to take over the activities of the Girl Project in our three original Girls Project villages. These young women run the Girls Groups, and serve as role models to our girls because they are each continuing their own education in high school or vocational classes. This is a story of one new Girl Leaders and how her peers helped her overcome her fears…
Keeping Girls in School During Covid-19: A Video Chat
By Merritt Frey, Executive Director
Join us on Sunday, October 25 to learn about our work to get girls into school and keep them there, even during COVID-19 times. Hindaty Traore will share stories from her work on the theme of “Keeping Girls In School in Mali During the COVID-19 Pandemic” and answer your questions about the work.
This informal discussion will cover the challenges of keeping girls in Mali safe and in school during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Hindaty is leading our strategies to keep them there. We promise beautiful photos, engaging stories, and inspiring details about how your support makes a difference in Mali. We’ll devote plenty of time to answering your questions too — feel free to ask about Mali culture, programming, Hindaty’s stories from the field or anything you are curious about.
In addition, we will share a few ways you can get more involved as a volunteer.
RSVP for the video link call here. We use Zoom, which most of you are familiar with by now!
Note that the call is Sunday, October 25 at Noon pacific/1 pm mountain/2pm central/3 pm eastern. The chat will last an about hour, but we will stay on the line a longer if you all have many questions.
