Mali Blog
Motorbikes for Midwives
Friday, 22 January 2010
The new project for 2010 is to provide motorbikes for the midwives to be able to reach people in outlying villages. Sue Newlands is project leader on this one and will no doubt be arranging some
10 days in Bamako
Friday, 22 January 2010
We spent a busy week in Bamako from 8th January. It was cool to be able to email home saying we were too hot given that there was a foot of snow at home!
We had 3 days of meetings with Mr Elmehdi
Car washing for Timbuktu
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Medics4Timbuktu is very grateful to Patrick Robinson-Miles from Smethwick who has been washing cars all summer to raise money for our project.
Patrick saw our flyers at the Hay Festival and
June News
June 2009
This week we started planning for our trip to Timbuktu in November. As well as monitoring and evaluating current projects we will also be looking at an education package for midwives and traditional
Hay Festival 2009
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Wow! Thanks to everyone who came to our talk at the Hay Festival. It was a sold out event! The sixth formers from Gwernyfed read out some of their written work from their trip to Timbuktu in
The development of friendships and long term partnership between the communities in Timbuktu and Hay on Wye
