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Using Health to build Power in Slums in Mali

Using Health to build Power in Slums in Mali

AXION

MHOP trains slum residents to build their own universal primary health care systems and break down the deadlock between slums and their government. Our pilot project is in Sikoroni, Mali. MHOP acts as a catalyst to bring slum residents and their governments together. Our ultimate goal is to see both parties invest in slum Development without outside assistance. The results of improved Health are immediate and very clear. People care very strongly about Health, so we use Health as a tool to organize communities. When community committees (CCs) learn to design, implement, and evaluate their own projects, they invest in Health and ask their governments to do the same. MHOP has a unique system of four tools to break down the slum deadlock:

  1. Health organizing
  2. Accountability
  3. Communication
  4. Seed funding Most other projects that work on health accidentally replace rather than foster government involvement.

We catalyze government involvement and address the root causes of underinvestment in slum health.

INFO

Health
Project
Africa
Mali
Not particularly
Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP)

INTERACT!

http://www.maliHealth.org

Mali Health Organizing Project
PO Box 20 · Westminster Station, VT 05159
404.729.2502 (main)

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http://www.malihealth.org/ht/d/sp/i/191/pid/191

http://www.malihealth.org/ht/d/sp/i/199/pid/199

http://www.malihealth.org/ht/d/sp/i/199/pid/199

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