Agriculture Project

Dogo

Provide villagers with increased nourishment by teaching proper gardening techniques and installing a drip system

Dogo’s increasing nourishment through drip-line irrigation

 

Dogo is a remote village about 162 kilometers from the capitol city, Bamako. There are roughly 3,500 villagers, including 340 students. The village lacked access to nutritious meal supplementation.

The Mali Wellness Foundation sought to improve health conditions by drilling a deep well system (310 feet) that does not dry up in the summer months. The system includes a newly designed filtration system to ensure pure, potable water for both the school and the village. The well connects to a drip-line irrigation system bringing water to the community vegetable garden (30 feet x 70 feet and 15 rows of seeds) which provides meal supplementation for hundreds of villagers.

Villagers were trained to plant green beans, okra, carrots, pepper, beets, onions, cucumbers, and tomatoes.

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