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Hawa Sissiko addresses a sanitation workshop at the Tienfala commune in Mali © Sando Moore / Sightsavers
Mali
The landlocked West African country of Mali is one of the world's poorest nations. The government only spends a yearly average of $33 per person on health care, compared with $5,274 in the US.
Sightsavers and Mali
Sightsavers started working in Mali in 1991 with the funding of a community-based Mectizan® distribution project to protect people against river blindness. In 2004 we celebrated the distribution of our 50 millionth Mectizan® tablet. Other projects include helping people who are irreversibly blind to lead independent lives, as well as preventing and curing blindness in some of the poorest parts of the country.
An effective collaboration in Mali
