UNICEF Mali

Les jumeaux Fousseyni et Awa, sont nés un 19 décembre 2019, avec respectivement un poids de 1500 et 1400 g. « Aujourd’hui ils ont 8 mois et pèsent chacun plus de 6kg. Awa est joyeuse et aime qu’on joue avec elle. Fousseyni lui, il a du caractère mais est très éveillé et a déjà commencé à gazouiller », déclare leur maman Ina, heureuse de voir ses jumeaux grandir en bonne santé.

Latest news

Two women helping to reinforce the protective dyke using a sandbag.
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Communities mobilise to protect children from floods

Training, tailored messages and local mobilisation are strengthening children’s resilience in the face of growing climate risks.

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From cash to community: How Malian women are investing

Women’s savings groups in Mali are using part of the financial aid they received through cash transfers to launch community-based projects

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Naimatou Still Delights Her Village

The grandmother fulfilled her dream: expanding the home she shares with her grandchildren.

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Water returns to the maternity ward

Improving access to clean water in health facilities is essential to combat infections, viruses, and epidemics.

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Making schools more welcoming for girls

Like Coumba and Issa, Adolescents in Mali are becoming champions of menstrual hygiene through education and empowerment.

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Balkissa, a mother Leading the fight against malnutrition

Her name is Balkissa. A young mother, she has become a driver of change in the fight against child malnutrition in her community.

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What we do

Aichata Togo 15 ans en salle de classe lors des examens du DEF. Le respect des mesures barrières notamment le port du masque est obligatoire. Grace au soutien de l’UNICEF et de ses partenaires, les enfants ont pu retrouver le chemin de l’école pour passer leurs examens de fin d’année ou poursuivre le programme scolaire 2019-2020 dans des conditions respectant les mesures barrières.

Harnessing children’s potential through quality education for every child

Education
Fatoumata Bocoum, 13, from Dialangou village, used to miss entire school days waiting for an old water pump to be repaired in her village. Today, there's a new UNICEF water pump next to her school. "We're so happy to have the new water pump. We'll have clean drinking water and our village will be even cleaner.

Creating change for Mali’s most vulnerable children

Child Protection
Assana Coulibaly, 9 years, has been integrated into Nankorola village school, in the circle of Koutiala with a 2 years later than she should have started school.

Improving children’s lives through clean water and clean environments

Water, sanitation and hygiene
Les jumeaux Fousseyni et Awa, sont nés un 19 décembre 2019, avec respectivement un poids de 1500 et 1400 g. « Aujourd’hui ils ont 8 mois et pèsent chacun plus de 6kg.

Giving every child a fair chance to survive and thrive

Child Survival
Fatoumata* and Aichata*, both 12, hold hands at a newly created displacement site in Sevare.

Responding to increasing humanitarian needs

Humanitarian Response
A group of back-to-school children ambassadors in Mopti

Enabling children and adolescents to unlock the door to prosperity, peace and development

Cross-cutting programmes
The Immunization Officer Abdoulaye is giving advice to Fanta Sangaré so that she can follow the vaccination of her child. Village of Kombaca, in the village of Sofara, Mopti region in central Mali.