Three years ago, a group of Brown University alumni and students began collaborating with Malian graduate students, educators and health professionals to address the dire conditions in a community on the outskirts of Mali's capital city. This group recognized that crises of poverty and disease are inextricably bound together, and that effective health programs must also change poverty. We launched Project Muso Ladamunen (the Project for the Empowered Woman) in June 2005, to address this connection between conditions of poverty and health.

Through the following four principle initiatives, Project Muso equips participants with skills and resources to resolve the root causes of disease:

1. Women’s Education Program
2. Springboard Microfinance Program
3. Community-Based Malaria Program 
4. Community Action Committee

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