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| Dissan Women's Soap Making Cooperative (Supplies) |
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| Project Director |
Yacouba Sangare |
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Dissan, Mali |
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Project Description
Every month, the Dissan Women's Association meets to discuss their common interests and dreams for the
future. Many of the women work together in small groups to grow crops like rice and peanuts, which they
sell to raise money as individuals and as a collective. Sometimes the money these women raise goes
toward personal purchases such as cloth to make new dresses for a holiday fete, or other times the
money goes toward a more communityoriented
cause such as emergency
assistance for a family in need.
For several years, the Dissan women have
been making soap to use in their
households. They typically meet three or
four times a year to make soap together.
Making their own soap helps save money
that these women might be able to use for
other important necessities and/or
investment.
In 2009 African Sky met with the Dissan
Women's Association to discuss their
operations, and we found that the women
were in need of some basic supplies and
materials that could make their soapmaking
enterprise far more efficient and
healthy. African Sky presented the
women's group with a special donation to
help them purchase rubber gloves, soap
making ingredients, and three strong
mixing tubs made from recycled plastics.
African Sky Country Director Yacouba
Sangare works with Food Security
Program Director Burama Sangare to
provide accounting and transportation
assistance to the woman's association
throughout the year.
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