Welcome to Build a School in Africa

A volunteer-run, non-profit organization, we have built three schools in deserving communities in Mali, West Africa. Explore our website to learn more about the schools and how you can help us build more!

Links

Here are some pointers to interesting information and other organizations that are doing good work in Mali:

Organizations

Save the Children
We partner with Save the Children to build our schools. STC is a four-star charity that has been working in Mali since 1987.

Friends of Mali
This organization was founded as an alumni group for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from Mali, West Africa, but the membership includes expatriate Malians, parents of volunteers, and, you guessed it, friends of Mali!

ECOVA/Mali
A small non-profit organization dedicated to small-scale, ecologically sustainable agriculture in Mali.

Art, Music, & Culture

Calabash Music
Fair trade music and mp3 downloads, featuring lots of great African music. The business model benefits the artists: "they keep half the money from each sale and they avoid the high costs of manufacturing, marketing and distributing their music on CDs."

WADaBo
West African Dance in Boston. Promoting West African Dancing, Drumming, Music and Culture in and around Boston.

World Music/CrashARTS
A non-profit concert promoter that brings African and World Music artists to play in and around Boston.

MANSA, The Mande Studies Association
A multidisciplinary academic group with interests in the Mande region of West Africa.

About Mali

Information on Mali from the US State Department

Wikipedia entry on Mali

Gap Minder
"A non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels." This website's innovative data explorer is beautiful and fun to use, and lets you uncover for yourself some of the global trends in population, economics, and health. Unfortunately, it shows a rather dismal picture, where many African nations have not kept pace with the economic gains of the last few decades.

Submit your links!

Submit other links by contacting our webmaster Matt Heberger (dit Abdoulaye Diabate) at mheberger@yahoo.com