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Because African Sky does not pay for travel expenses, organization salaries, or other costs, over 80% of every dollar we receive directly funds a project in Mali. With just a few hundred dollars, we can modestly and directly reach dozens and dozens of farming families through numerous, locally-driven projects. With limited financial resources and efficient management, African Sky completed 105 individual projects over the past five fiscal years.
Our Project Reports are organized according to our four service programs: Education, Community Health, Food Security, and Community Arts. The reports below include budget information and project descriptions. As you review our projects, please contact African Sky if you would like to support some of our existing programs (let us know if you have ideas for new projects). We file our project reports and project-specific budgets on-line to provide a means for donors to see exactly how we put their gifts to use in Mali.
2012 Fiscal Year Project Reports |
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Education ($13,302.78)
| $1,229.17 |
Markala Women's Literacy Project
This annual program teaches women literacy and basic math for women. The class meets 2-3 times a week (minus holidays) for nine months. |
| $300.00 |
Giving Tree Adopt-a-student
Each year, some who participate in the Giving Tree choose to adopt a student for one school year. The support includes money for clothing and all school materials. In addition, the funds provide grain (up to 200kg) to supplement family food supplies. Some children do not attend school because their parents need farm labor; the grain permits a poor family to send a child to school without jeopardizing family food security. |
| $5,613.34 |
Soumabougou School Project (10 Schools, 1000 Lives)
Our team completed brick production for the Soumabougou School by early May 2012. Now they are building school house walls! For fiscal year 2012, our budget produced bricks and prepped for construction final construction phase (which began in September 2012!). |
| $300.00 |
Giving Tree - Teacher Supplies 2012
Each year, some of our Giving Tree donors contribute funds to support Malian teachers and their classrooms. Teachers receive supplies (purchased in Mali… we support the teacher AND small-scale Malian entrepreneurs with the same funds!), and sometimes small funds to purchase classroom essentials. |
| $309.28 |
Adult Literacy Dissan (Baliku Kalanso Program)
In Dissan, our partner Issa Sangare teaches adult literacy to adult males and females who did not have the opportunity to attend primary school. He teaches them math, reading, and writing. He has used some African Sky funds to acquire solar panels and LED lighting for his students (who study and attend class in the evenings). |
| $195.00 |
Giving Tree - Cement for 10 Schools Project
Some of our Giving Tree donors gave funds to purchase the cement we use to stabilize our earth blocks, the key construction material for our schools. |
| $5,355.99 |
African Sky-Kenya Scholarships
African Sky-Kenya is supporting students who participated in our early reading and sports programs in Kenya. Now, several promising students from that program attend college on African Sky-Kenya scholarships. Scholarship funds are generated by our partners Caleb Mooty and Steve Feldman in Atlanta, Georgia. The bake and sell pretzels at local Atlanta pubs. |
Food Security ($5,267.29)
| $2,400.68 |
Food/Family Crisis Assistance (multi-site)
When families in our partner communities face extreme hunger or hardship, African Sky tries to step in an provide urgent assistance. These funds have been used to buy food, medicine, or to pay for hospital bills. |
| $915.00 |
Giving Tree - Goats & Chickens for rural families
Some of our Giving Tree donors choose to purchase goats and chickens to invest in hard-working farm families. In fiscal year 2012, our donors purchased 18 goats and 24 chickens for our Malian friends. |
| $773.20 |
Giving Tree - Community Cereal Bank 2012
Some of our Giving Tree donors supported our annual cereal bank budget. We use these funds to assist community organizations that are developing or strengthening a community cereal bank. We also provide cereal bank consulting, but that service is a free service that is no-cost for our donors. |
| $1,178.41 |
Hungry Season/Ramada Food Assistance (annual project)
Between planting and harvesting annual crops, Malians endure what we call "the hungry season." Until the new harvest comes in, household food supplies dwindle… each year, 10-20 families in Dissan (for example) run out of grain completely. Hungry Season assistance provides food insecure families with a supply of grain to supplement the household until harvest. |
Community Arts ($210.17)
| $83.33 |
Banconi Plateau Neighborhood New Year's Fete
To ring in 2012, African Sky hosted a New Year's party in an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Bamako, Mali's capital city. Kids played games, teens and adults danced, and people enjoyed some modest food and beverages. |
| $41.24 |
"Egg-Tigi" Income Generating Activites - Pay it forward load
After six years of eating roadside breakfasts at Drissa's egg sandwich shack (Bamako), African Sky gave Drissa an income generation loan to purchase a supply of beverages that he now sells along with his other food stand menu items. When he was ready to pay back African Sky, we asked him to reinvest it in his small business. For less than $50 African Sky helped Drissa build up his small business into an operation that employs three people. |
| $85.60 |
Electrician Supplies & Electronics Recycling
African Sky partners with Karamoko Sangare in Markala to help his electronics repair business. Karamoko received a new electronics tester and volt meter, as well as a supply of high-quality electrical solder. He supports his extended family with this business, and he helps his community keep radios, televisions, and other items working (and out of landfills). |
Community Health ($5,262.32)
| $261.22 |
Rural Pharmacy Supplies
Each year we purchase basic medicines and first aid supplies (in Mali) for our partner communities. We augment these purchased supplies with in-kind donations from the U.S. These medicines typically include aspirin, vitamins, immodium, and other over-the-counter products. |
| $408.16 |
Dissan Women's Association
Last fiscal year we assisted the Dissan Women's Association with supplies to make and sell soap and peanut butter. |
| $206.19 |
Sorghum Press "Gear Making" at the Machinist's…
Our Engineers Without Borders partners at University of California, Santa Barbara are helping us collaborate with a Malian machinist to produce a manual press to make molasses from sweet sorghum. This project will soon allow men and women in rural communities to produce a local sweetener that helps inspire kids (and others) to eat their porridge (and it saves moms a lot of money because they don't have to purchase imported (and less nutritional) sugar. |
| $330.00 |
Peace Corps Malaria Awareness Bike Tour
African Sky partnered with Peace Corps Volunteer Lauren Kraft (and her friends) to do a creative and energetic Malaria Awareness Bike Tour. The volunteers biked from market village to market village. They carried microscopes so local people could actually SEE malaria. They taught about various treatment and prevention strategies through songs, skits, and art. The project received high accolades by locals, and was featured on the Peace Corps and Roll Back Malaria websites. |
| $2,500.00 |
Post-Coup Assistance: Funerals (2), Hospital (3), Pharmacy (8), Food (2)
Following the March 2012 coup d'etat, African Sky provided funds to our Mali Country Directors so they could respond to immediate needs of families in our partner communities. These funds were eventually used to pay for medical bills, hospital visits, food, and even two funerals. |
| $160.00 |
Giving Tree - Fruit & Medicine "Health" Baskets (x4)
Some of our Giving Tree donors provided funds so African Sky could deliver a basket of fruit and medicine to a mother in need. This year we had funds to provide baskets to four nursing mothers with sick and/or malnourished infants. |
| $130.00 |
Giving Tree - Bed Nets, treated (x13)
Some of our Giving Tree donors provided funds to purchase and deliver bed nets to prevent malaria in elderly and nursing mother populations. The nets are treated with anti-mosquito ingredients, and are big enough for mothers to co-sleep with up to 2-3 children. |
| $1,266.75 |
Dokotoro Project - Contract Negotiation, Translator Advance
African Sky is a partner of the Dokotoro Project. This project is translating the book Where There is No Doctor into Bamanakan, a local language for the majority of Malian citizens. The book has been used by health workers, Peace Corps (worldwide), and others who do not have access (geographical and/or financial) to professional health care. |
Little Eagles ($734.10)
| $238.18 |
Little Eagles New Year's Tournaments (2)
The Little Eagles Bamako Soccer Leagues had two tournaments to celebrate the arrival of 2012. The games are featured on our Little Eagles facebook page… check it out! You'll see pictures, videos, scores/results, and more. |
| $91.84 |
Little Eagles Game Day Stadium Trip
In January 2012, the Director of the Little Eagles project organized a special trip to Mali's national stadium to see a professional soccer match. We brought 35 kids and several coaches to the stadium, we bought snacks and juices, and we cheered as we watched a victory for the local team! Get more information on this great day by checking the Little Eagles facebook page. |
| $404.08 |
Little Eagles Spring Tournaments (2)
The Little Eagles Bamako Soccer Leagues had two tournaments to celebrate the arrival of Spring 2012. The games are featured on our Little Eagles facebook page… check it out! You'll see pictures, videos, scores/results, and more. |
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