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Koumbéré Sankaré, 12, from Diambadougou village
© UNICEF Mali/2018/Keita
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Samba*, 13 (left), helps a friend put on a face mask at a temporary shelter opened in Bamako by UNICEF and its partner Samusocial to support children living in the street during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Preventing coronavirus among the most vulnerable

Samba*, a child living in the street in Mali, has become a true handwashing champion

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Hawa Gadiaga, 15, who fled her village in 2019 following violence, shows off her clean hands at the Socoura displacement camp in Mopti, central Mali. Displacement sites, where families live in tents in close proximity and often have limited access to quality social services and information, are at high risk of becoming tinderboxes for the spread of COVID-19. As of 23 May 2020, Mopti region had recorded 72 cases of COVID-19. “Hawa’s especially committed to promoting key practices,” says Oumar Gadiaga, a comm
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In Mali’s COVID-19 fight, knowledge is power

Young people in Mali’s displacement camps are being empowered with information about how to protect themselves and their communities.

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Fatoumata Tamboura, 15, a child journalist in Mopti, leads a radio broadcast on COVID-19 on Kaoural FM, a community radio. In March, before the first cases of COVID-19 in Mali were confirmed, UNICEF trained child journalists on the illness, its transmission and its prevention. An important part of the training was discussion on rumors and false information, and the role young people can play in combatting it and keeping themselves and their communities safe.
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Mali’s young people making themselves heard against COVID-19

Young people are out in their communities dispelling myths about the coronavirus.

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Adama Traoré, 40, has been a vaccinator at Sadiola community health center for more than 10 years. As a mobile vaccinator, he goes to vaccinate children in gold mine sites such as Massakama, a site which is 50 km from the nearest health center. The use of mobile vaccinators to reach vulnerable populations living in hard-to-reach areas such as gold mine sites are among the approaches that UNICEF and its partners have put in place to reach every child. Kayes, March 20, 2019.
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A day in the life of a vaccinator in Mali

Going the distance to reach every child, no matter where they live.

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Aminata Cissé, 20, gives therapeutic milk to her daughter Maya Ag Oumar, 12 months, at the regional hospital in Timbuktu. Maya is suffering from severe acute malnutrition with medical complications (malaria and anemia). "I was scared of losing her," her mother says. "She was sleeping all the time and she wasn't playing. She didn't even have the energy to cry. I'm very happy with the treatment here.” Today, Maya is recovering thanks to therapeutic milk and medication supplied by UNICEF
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Overcoming the odds

In Mali’s northern region of Timbuktu, food insecurity and childhood illnesses expose children to malnutrition.

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Un enfant de Mopti decouvrant la pompe d'eau de son village
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Water is life, health, cleanliness, happiness, wealth!

Beautiful photos of children enjoying access to clean water

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