Mali benefits from strong surface water resources and a large solar field. However, despite many committed efforts, the country has not yet achieved its goal of universal access to drinking water. Rural and peri-urban communities are the most affected by this problem. In some localities, drinking water shortages are common even during the rainy season. This is due to limited generation capacity and power grid issues. To overcome this problem, PAGES HUMANITAIRES is initiating its project to build solarized drinking water supply for communities suffering from this shortage.
Find out moreToday in MALI, a third of patients do not have access to their treatment. Especially since patients with kidney failure do not have the cost of transportation to travel to health centers. There are currently approximately more than 10,000 dialysis patients and 5,000 on the waiting list, to which must be added 4,000 new cases each year. This is a critical situation and these expenses are expected to increase rapidly as the population ages and diabetes and high blood pressure affect more and more people. Significant access difficulties remain in certain regions of Mali. These difficulties are caused, among other things, by the increased lack of competent healthcare personnel, good quality and safe infrastructures and geographical obstacles. To overcome all these problems, PAGES HUMANITAIRES is initiating its “Medcar” mobile care project mirroring that of MOROCCO (Medtrucks)
Find out moreMedicines are expensive and many do not have access to them…However, after treatment, we often forget entire boxes or blister packs in the family medicine box until they expire…This situation is a financial loss for the individual but above all for the community because certainly neighbors or underprivileged people could have used these medicines before they expired. By doing research, we realized that for Malian households, more than half of health expenditure is drug expenditure. It is therefore the most important item of health expenditure. Also, a large part of the population has no health coverage or it does not cover or only partially covers drugs. All this makes access to medicines difficult and above all inequitable. There are benefactors, NGOs that offer medicines, companies that donate medicines as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, but these donations have no traceability and the donors have no no visibility of the final destination. It is to solve all these health-related difficulties that PAGES HUMANITARAIRES, inspired by Jokkosanté (Senegal), set up its virtual pharmacy project “Virtual Care”.
Find out moreWater hyacinth is an invasive aquatic plant. In 8 months, ten water hyacinth plants can generate 655,330 new plants. It has become a real scourge in waters around the world. The consequences of this biological invasion on the aquatic ecosystem and human activities are not insignificant. Water hyacinth alters the functioning of aquatic ecosystems by threatening fisheries, river transport, tourism, etc. Likewise, by preventing the penetration of solar radiation, the dense carpet of hyacinth decreases the photosynthesis of the primary producers at the base of the food chains. The impact on health is equally worrying, since this green carpet is home to many nests for mosquitoes, proliferating and spreading malaria. This invasive alien species mainly affects the Niger River, but has also spread throughout the Sub-African continent. HUMANITARIAN PAGES seeking a solution to this invasion sets up its project combining sanitation (collection of all the hyacinths) agriculture (transformation into compost of the hyacinths), and energy (transformation of the hyacinths into charcoal briquettes).
Find out moreHydroponics in greenhouses makes it possible to cultivate anywhere, including in urban / peri-urban areas, and therefore to promote a local economy, a culture of proximity, to limit the transport of these vegetable products (vegetables in particular), and thus reducing the carbon footprint resulting from their production and transport, and guaranteeing better freshness to the products. It also makes it possible to cultivate at any time of the year in controlled atmosphere and light conditions and to no longer be at the mercy of climatic constraints (drought, frost, hail) which affect yields.
Find out moreAll the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are faced with the problem of financing their education system. On the one hand, access to basic, quality education is far from being generalized in the majority of them, and both quantitative and qualitative efforts must be made before reaching this objective. On the other hand, the need to restore macro-economic balances weighs on state budgets and limits public funding for education. HUMANITARIAN PAGES has set up its smart school project to bring local schools into the digital age in order to give each child the keys to success and allow optimal use of these digital resources. Digital is essential in the world of today and tomorrow. This is why we act for people who are excluded. In particular for young people with learning difficulties or without qualifications.
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