A very helpful gift from the Altrusa International Foundation. Thank you!

Altrusa International Foundation donates solar lites to help village Public Health volunteers and their children have light to their homework.

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Thank you Altrusa International Foundation Club 21!

In October, 2021, Altrusa International Foundation Club 21 approved a grant to fund our Public Health programs to improve lives of women and children in an impoverished area of Mali. This grant funds supports the MFM objectives to have 1) infants receive a complete set of immunizations and 2) pregnant women have 3 or more prenatal visits.

Altrusa International of Columbus OH Foundation gives supplies for Public Health programs

Altrusa of Columbus OH donates medical exam gloves and blood pressure monitoring kits for MFM for Public Health programs for midwife visits and immunizations in Mali.

Altrusa of Columbus gives money for Education grant

Altrusa of Columbus gave MFM $3,000 for teacher training! Thank you! This grant will improve the lives of kids by improving the quality of their teachers.

Sad news of hotel terrorist attack in Bamako

We are thankful for a safe resolution to the terrorist take-over of the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako. Our condolences to the families of those who lost their lives. We are saddened because the peaceful, hospitable people of Mali live in poverty and have few resources before all this started. 

THIS AFRICAN LIFE screening to raise money for a clean water well.

This African Life film  screening is at 7pm, Thursday, October 8, 2015, at the Bexley United Methodist Church, 2657 E Broad St. in Bexley Ohio. 

Told through the eyes of 8-year-old Sokona Keita, this film reveals harsh realities of life in a West African village, even as she expresses optimism for her future. Sokona takes the viewer on an inside tour of her town and the lives of the women and children who struggle with daily survival. Q&A after film with film participants. Donations are for 1 clean water well. You can donate at screening or here on website. 

In Jan, 2015 - 6 new clean water wells

Getting clean water

Good news that 6 more clean water wells have been dug.

This makes a total of 28 wells dug by MFM.

Ebola training

MFM is training the village health volunteers or relais on Ebola and how to give  talks to the villagers  to educate them on:

• what is Ebola
• what are the symptoms
• how can one prevent getting the virus
• how is Ebola transmitted
• what is the treatment for Ebola

2014 update - good news

All of the Medicine for Mali programs-Clean water, Micro-finance loans, Teacher training, are operating this year in Mali. In addition Public Health programs of  Matrone training , malaria prevention, and immunizations are on-going this year. Our village volunteers have been trained and work hard on these things every month in their own villages. Dave and Drake U pharmacist John Rovers went to Mali in Feb, 2014. They got 4 new clean water wells installed in even more remote villages. Our villagers told them how much they appreciated the midwife coming to train their village matrones.

MFM hired a  Malian doctor to hold a medical clinic in the Health Center. He was pleasantly surprised by the lack of diarrhea in our area. He had expected to see a lot of this. But, thanks to the clean water in these villages , he did not have patients will this ailment.

The rebellion in the north of Mali has not had a direct effect on our villages as they are far away from this trouble. We are thankful for that.

Ebola has not been found in Mali, as of this writing.

Drake Students raising money for solar frig

Young mothers and children waiting to get immunizations.

Drake University students in  Iowa are raising money for a solar refrigerator for to keep vaccines at correct temperature. So far they have raised $1700, about 1/2 of their goal. Great Job!!! Photo of young mothers and their children waiting for immunizations in one of our villages. 

Matron training grant

MFM car with gloves to matron.

Thanks to Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund for a grant to bring a midwife to the village matrons to increase the skills in safe, clean delivery and Prenatal visits.

Medicine for Mali is mentioned in this Aid to Africa blog

http://www.aidforafrica.org/blog/providing-clean-water-blue-planet/

4 more clean water wells

Medicine for Mali will be putting in 4 more clean water wells this spring in 4 villages that do not have clean water. Clean water is the basis of health. We are very happy to be able to announce this.

Altrusa International Foundation awards money

school Mali Jan Feb 2009 copy

Altrusa International Foundation of Columbus, Ohio has donated money for the Medicine for Mali  teacher training program. Thank you, Altrusa Columbus!

Bexley Church donates scholarships

A big thank you to Bexley Methodist Church for donating 2 scholarships for top students to go to high school.

2013 MFM work continues

Good news: all of Medicine for Mali’s is continuing this year, even though the American team could not make it’s yearly visit this winter. For example:

4 new villages (3500 people) will be getting clean water wells this year.

The Malian doctor who held MFM med clinics this year was surprised by the lack of stomach and intestinal aliments in the villagers. He said the clean water wells were the reason, and he thanked MFM for this.

New Micro-finance loans went out to 350 people in 8 villages in 2013.

School-teacher trainings are being held in the villages’ schools. All MFM trained teachers have passed their evaluations. Scholarship students are receiving their money to go to high school in the capital.

A Midwife is coming for monthly prenatal visits to assist and teach the village matrons. Many more women are coming for prenatal visits now!

Public Health trainings and refresher courses are occurring now.

Monthly Immunizations sessions in all villages are occurring. Malaria prevention talks and weighing of children for malnutrition are continuing.

Des Moines Register article

Be sure to read this good article by Tony Leys. It discusses Medicine for Mali's work and the fact that the Medical Team is not going to Mali in 2013 but our work continues.

Aid for Africa blog

Check out this link. Aid for AfricaAid for Africa posted a nice article about Medicine for Mali and the fact that our work continues in Mali in 2013 even though a trip by American volunteers is not possible this year.