As a landlocked country in the Sahel region of West Africa, Mali faces relentless heat and temperatures that are projected to increase 1.5x higher than the global average.
Less than 30% of the rural population has access to sanitation services, which means that families have little opportunity to protect themselves from diarrhea, disease, and COVID-19. As a result, Mali has a high rate of infectious disease and one of the world's highest infant mortality rates.
For women and girls in rural Mali, collecting dirty water is tedious, time-consuming, and physically demanding. 800-year-old holes in the ground provide families with contaminated water. And there’s rarely enough to go around.
Now, due to recent political instability that has weakened the central government, rural communities will be even more in need of water, sanitation, and hygiene support, making our work in Mali more important than ever.
This September, you can change the course of 2020 for 20,000 people in rural Mali.
