It's Tuesday evening and I write this first post from my room in Bamako. For the uninitiated I stay with Yaya, a guesthouse run by Yaya Kone in a northern district of Bamako, Korofina North. It's a very nice guesthouse where you can enjoy a little quiet in hell de Bamako. Je suis accompagné par mon téléphone portable qui fait office de musique. Il ne supporte pas bien la chaleur. Ici, pas de mercure pour nous renseigner, mais le mécanisme d’évacuation de la chaleur mis en place par mon organisme, autrement dit la sueur, exprime parfaitement la bonne trentaine de degrés qu’il fait dans ma chambre
Le décor planté, je peux vous parler de mes 2 jours et 2 nuits sur place. Tout a commencé par un accueil chaleureux à l’aéroport de Bamako par Hélène, la déléguée internationale de Planète Urgence au Mali (oui oui, pour ceux qui ne savent pas, c’est mon employeur… Dans le titre du précédent section, you have a link to the website;)) and by Yaya Zouboye "service provider" for projects in Bamako. This reception was followed by immediate immersion in the local reality. A car parked next to us find a way to embed his bull bars in our bumper, also protected by a bull bar. These two cars hooked to each other by the nose, it looked like two schoolboys caught by their dentures during a kiss. We leave after two hours of talks during which the language of one accused the other of this attachment.
The first comes at night! Not too hot with the fan, not too many mosquitos due to repulsive, and a cinderblock miniature pillow (but not Danielle, there is no Yaya cinderblock home to sleep, but the pillows hard contrast with my feather pillow to Paris ... as for Claire, I know, I have your inflatable pillow, but too lazy to inflate the time ). A good night's sleep and a breakfast buffet later, I went early to the office of Planète Urgence in the premises of the Permanent Assembly of the Chamber of Crafts of Mali (APCMM). I shake a few hands and then I met Boubacar, the referent of Planet Emergency training projects for adults in Bamako.
Knowledge and amiability made, we begin with Helen and Boubacar our tour of visits to certain partner organizations for which PU has sent volunteers on a mission. PU Bamako is a fifty projects for adult education. That is to say, projects that emanate from associations that express training needs in areas as diverse as office, hygiene and nutrition, accounting, soap, drama, editing project etc.. For each of these missions, PU adheres to three principles: no substitution local actors, not competition, not direct port project. With these three principles, the intervention of PU is summarized in supporting and structuring of requirements and coordination with the capacity in France to enable skills transfer time of a 15-day mission (to those who think that day we learn little, put yourself in the position for 10 of those 15 days you spend your days learning the Word and Excel for example ... we'll see if at the end of those 10 days you don ' have not learned something) ...
Thus, in the space of two days, Monday and Tuesday we visited several associations. Each deserves to be supported, and again the spectrum of skills is broad SMUFJF, APEF, Assurem, INA as so many acronyms that summarize the investment associations in supporting young single mothers, young children in promoting "economic" of women or the exploitation of art and craft trades. During each visit, our respondents expressed their appreciation to host volunteers from previous missions and their desire to renew these missions. Surprising indeed if one wants a bit treacherous. However, results on the field, even modest advances and demonstrate successes, more or less palpable after the various formations. A notable example with the "Association for Supervision and Survival of Mothers and Children of the Street" (Assurem) after a mission on hygiene and nutrition of children 0-6 years, the number of diarrhea has substantially decreased thereby improving the health of children and hygienic conditions of the center. And nurses trained in these councils in turn train other nurses and multiply the effects of the mission. And it is a testimony among others. Nevertheless problems exist on other projects. The key is to identify conditions for solving these problems.
On this point, a visit Tuesday morning from 3 of the 4 libraries in which PU intervenes to support school alongside teachers and librarians shows progress in a few months in the monitoring of projects. In these 3 libraries, a room is dedicated to reading and emergent speaking. It is difficult to monitor the work of librarians and physical conditions on site, including the funds 'librarians' formed after the coming successive volunteers. Yaya Kone, our host in Bamako, following these projects and I noticed that his repeated presence and content of his speech has more open access for libraries for children. And the children enjoy an additional coaching and releases more of their speech.
I hope these first visits, rather tinged with optimism, will continue as long as possible. I also hope that the time taken to read that many lines allowed you to travel with me ... Who knows, perhaps a first step towards solidarity leave for you?!
Inch ' Allah!
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