The Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) acts as a catalyst to bring slum residents and their governments together. When community committees learn to design, implement, and evaluate their own projects, they invest in health and ask their governments to do the same.
The Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP) was founded in 2006 as a partnership between American university students and the community leaders in Sikoro, one of the first neighborhoods in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. MHOP is a 501c3 non-profit organization that is currently working to support creative solutions that address the most pressing health problems in the poorest neighborhoods in Mali.
MHOP aims to create a model clinic and health delivery system in Mali by enabling slum communities to design and build their own health systems, capitalizing on users' innovative ideas. Its mission is to jumpstart the power of slum residents to catalyze change in their own communities.
- Location: Bamako, Mali
- Visit the website: malihealth.org