Milestones


July 2005 - Project Muso launches in Yirimadjo, Mali.

August 2005 - Community Action Committee forms.

November 2005 - First four classes begin Phase I of the Women's Education Program.

March 2006 - Project Muso participants and the Community Action Committee organize a demonstration on International Women's Day, petitioning the government to address the clean water crisis in the community.

April 2006 - Phase II of the Women's Education Program launches.  The launch event features performances that teach hundreds of community members about AIDS, family planning, clean water access and vaccination.

June 2006 – As a result of pressure from demonstrations by the Community Action Committee, Yirimadjo's Mayor officially commits to implementing the first three steps of the Yirimadjo Water Project.  The Yirimadjo Water Project aims to bring infrastructure for running water into the community.

February 2007 - First four classes graduate from Women's Education Program.  The graduates are now Community Health Promoters.   They enroll in the Springboard Microfinance Program, launching more than 100 small enterprises. Seven new classes of participants register and begin training in the Women's Education Program.

June 2007 - Community-Based Malaria Prevention Program launches. Over 1,000 community members attend and learn how to prevent malaria infections in their communities. Through this program, the Community Action Committee and Community Health Promoters work with the local community health center to distribute mosquito nets to cover beds and provide one-on-one malaria prevention training for thousands of people.

December 2007 - Project Muso's Health Educators work with the Ministry of Health's Yirimadjo Community Health Center to put the Integrated Campaign into action in Yirimadjo.  The Integrated Campaign -- a nationwide initiative sponsored by the Malian President's Malaria No More initiative and others -- provides polio vaccination, measles vaccination, vitamin-A supplementation, de-worming treatment and more than 4,000 bed nets to children and pregnant women in Yirimadjo.

January 2008 - Project Muso and the Yirimadjo Community Health Center organize an introductory training for clinical staff on malaria rapid diagnostics and artemisin-based combination therapies for malaria. Also in January, as part of the Community Action Committee's Yirimadjo Water Project, two public faucets for running water and 400 meters of network piping are constructed and installed.  This new infrastructure connects Yirimadjo to the municipal system of clean running water for the first time.  The construction comprises the first three of eight steps in the Yirimadjo Water Project, which aims to create the backbone of a running water system in Yirimadjo.
 

May 2008 - 21 woman are selected to begin training as Community Health Workers within the larger framework of the Community Based Malaria Program.  Project Muso joins with Malaria No More and the Interfaith Youth Core to help the Tony Blair Faith Foundation promote work towards acheiving the Millennium Development Goals.