Through Project Muso's collaboration with Tostan, there are now 14 new facilitators at work in centers throughout Yirimadjo.  Meet a few of them:

Fatoumata Koné, better known as Tata, started to participate with Project Muso through the education program. The program was really important to her because before she could only read and write in French, not in her native language, Bambara. Tata wanted to become a facilitatrice because her facilitatrice was so good and she wanted to be like her and help others to learn. 

During the one month training in Koulikoro Tata learned about women’s and children’s rights, which she didn’t know about before. Now she can teach her children about their rights, such as the right to an education, and about her own rights as a woman. 

Mariam Diallo started with Project Muso’s Women’s Education Program, where she learned to read and write in Bambara and to make bogolan, a traditional mud cloth. The program helped her a lot because now she can make money by selling bogolan.

Mariam wanted to become a facilitatrice because literacy really interests her and she wants to help others learn to read and write in Bambara.  She says, “Bambara is our paternal language, so it’s important that we learn how to read and write in it, in addition to French.” Her goal is to continue teaching, even after the end of this 3-year program. She wants everyone to learn their rights.

Amadoun A Cisse studied economic management at university, and wanted to become a facilitator because he is very interested in community development. He wants to add his small contribution to helping those in poverty. 

Amadoun recognizes that they have a big task set before them, and he hopes that this new collaboration between Project Muso and Tostan will be a great success.   He hopes that Tostan’s message of human rights is conveyed to the community and that the facilitators can all be ambassadors to the community.

 For a full list of our facilitators, see the "Our Team" page.