CRDA. Programs

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Programs

To fight against poverty, CRDA spreads its interventions to the following domains:

Education

About children situation, Mali counts two hundred miles (200000) street children, minor delinquents, hard-working children, orphans, beggars and those that are in conflict with the law or victims of abuse, exploitation and carelessness, 12077 of which only are taken care by specialized institutions. You can see the video 1 (1'26 Mb), the video 2 (492 Kb) and the video 3 (1'1 Mb) about disadvantaged children, all in .wmv format.

The repercussions of these situations are among others abandonment and premature school exclusions, malnutrition, greater risks of contact with the HIV/AIDS.

This program aims of:

The creation of schools for the schooling of disadvantaged children (orphans, beggars, young employees, etc.)
To list the disadvantaged children (orphans and on the other from 6 to 8 years) in order to school them.
To list the children beggars, delinquents and young hard-working from 6 to 12 year give them classes in order reclassify them in the formal education.

This assistance is relative to the following responsibilities:

Establishment of auxiliary judgments for the children not registered in the birth.
School registrations.
Supports in school stationeries and didactic materials.
The sanitary coverage of the children.
The preparation of tables benches.
Supplementary classes to improve the level of the children.

To reach efficient and effective results, CRDA's assistance will spread out on all the first cycle of the fundamental school (between six to eight years).

Elimination of illiteracy

In Mali, the majority of rural populations are illiterate, so to fight illiteracy, the CRDA works for:

The creation of the centres of elimination of illiteracy and learning in professions (practical training of the young people and illiterate women.
The creation of the generative activities of incomes for poor women.

CRDA's store of local product of Mali (outside)

CRDA's store of local product of Mali (inside)

Health

In this program, to improve the health of women and children, the CRDA works for:

The construction of maternities and heath centres in the rural circles.
The distribution of mosquito nets soaked to the pregnant women and to the children.
The organization of awareness campaigns on the means of prevention and fight against the AIDS, the malaria and the diarrhoeic diseases.

Food security

About 80% of the Malian populations are farmers. An agriculture which still uses rudimentary means and which remains dependent on climatic chances (a single rainy season spreading out over 3 or 4 months a year).

To fight against the big famine, the CRDA works for:

The construction of cereal banks in the rural circles.
The distribution of cereal in zones the most affected with the bad pluviometry and bad harvests.

Productive activities of incomes

To finance the generative activities of incomes of the women, the CRDA introduced the creation of the productive activities of incomes. They will also allow employing the women on purposes lucrative.

These activities are:

The pisciculture
Aviculture
The breeding of the pigs

New technologies of information and the communication

As all the African countries, Mali is not in rest of the numeric fracture. Indeed, the science of the data processing is very expensive and less developed in Mali. Training in single software in data processing varies among $50 US and $400 US. A computer costs at least $1000 US and $1600 US at most, in a country where the income by inhabitant is of 320 US dollars. More than 75% of the Malian executives have not the mastery of the computer tool. Less than 4% of the population has access to the Internet and less than 10% of the pupils and students have access to the Internet. One hour of connection with Internet costs about 1 dollar US.

To popularize the science of the data processing in Mali, the CRDA works for:

The creation of from training centres of data processing in aid of the pupils and the students.
The organization of the sessions of initiation and training in data processing of the pupils, students and young graduates.
The implementation of community centres equipped in computers within the public elementary schools.

Tourism

On the social plan, Mali is a country of peace and solidarity, because it kept traditional values which make that Mali is a big country of customs and traditions. Mali is also a big tourist country with the presence of four places of interest classified as World Patrimony of the Humanity; they are: the city of Timbuktu, the Old Towns of Djenné, the Tomb of Askia, the Land of the Dogons, except these four sites there are still several very important places of interest.

The organization every year (on all the year) of craft and tourist days:

January, from 15th to 31th.
February, from 15th to 28th.
March, from 15th to 30th.
July, August and December, from 15th to 31th.

Contents of craft and tourist days:

Conference about Malian culture and tradition.
Exhibition and sale of the crafts on Malian culture and tradition.
Conducted tour of the tourists towards the Malian main places of interest.

To join a meeting send this form with your references to:

Name: First name: Session:

Sex:

Woman Men

Country: e-mail:

Choose your session and visit the four sites of the World Patrimony of the Humanity of Mali.

Children Right Defence Association

Protection and assistance to disadvantaged women and children