Schools we’ve built
Since 2005, we have returned to Mali each year, and started building a new school along with our partners from Save the Children. Visit the photos page to see the construction process. And please consider getting involved to help us make a sixth school possible in 2010!
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Mounkonkoro 2009
Judy Lorimer from Build a School in Africa visited Mali in November with our annual contribution to help build our 5th school. Save the Children hosted a ceremony on November 18th to lay the first brick for a new elementary school in the village of Mounkonkoro. Our project this year was helped greatly by the Binnie family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Their two sons, Adam and Dylan, with their Dad Bill's support, raised $10,000 this summer. This donation, plus the $9,000 raised by Build a School In Africa, will provide about 2/3 of the funding for the new school building.
Mounkonkoro is a village northwest of Sikasso, populated by the members of the Senufo ethnic group. Last year Save the Children built one three-room school in the village, and this year we are adding 3 more classrooms, so they will have a complete primary school for grades 1 - 6. At the Binnie's request, the new school will be named for Christine Laidlaw.
Welcome to Mounkonkoro, site of our 5th school – in partnership with Save the Children and the Binnie family of Portsmouth, NH
Senufo Balafon players
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Diaka 2008
We built our fourth school, in the community of Diaka in the Kolondieba District, starting in Fall 2008. The cornerstone was laid on November 16th, 2008, and it was finished by mid-February, 2009.
Welcoming gift in Diaka, 2008
Laying the cornerstone, Diaka, November 16, 2008
School Children at Diaka school site
New Middle School, Diaka, Feb 2009
Koloni-Filala 2007
Our third school was begun in November 2007 in Koloni-Filala, a village about 10 miles northeast of Dialakoroba, in the Sikasso region of Mali.
Massamagana 2006
Our second school, in the village of Massamagana, 18 km from the town of Kolondieba, in southern Mali.
Dialakoroba 2005
Our first school, in the village of Dialakoroba, near the town of Kolondieba in southern Mali.
New school in Dialakoroba under construction in November 2005
Builders taking a well-deserved rest
