oxfam’s goals universal basic education basic health care for all reproductive health care for all...

OXFAM’S GOALSUNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION

BASIC HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL WOMEN

ADEQUATE FOOD FOR ALL AND SAFE WATER

SANITATION FOR ALL

SENEGAL & MALI

MALI

SENEGAL

EDUCATION

ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE IN BANKASS, MALI.

OUTDOORS.

NO BOOKS.

MEMORIZE EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY THE KORAN.

EDUCATIONIN THE CASAMANCE, SENEGAL

VILLAGE SCHOOLNEAR SALIMATA, SENEGAL

EDUCATION

COMPARE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MALI & SENEGAL

Mali

Senegal

VILLAGE SCHOOLIN SINE-SALOUM REGION, SENEGAL

LYCÉE MALICK SY IN THIÈS, SENEGAL

Education

No books, paper, few stencils for teachers.

Poor facilities & No electricity

Few female students and teachers

Language barrier

$5.00 registration fee too much

EDUCATION

Education isn’t required. It’s a privilege

Many students fail due to lack of support and materials.

Many boys leave home to look for work in crowed cities. Poor, hungry, desperate, bored: results in crime.

Many girls have to work at home. In some places: slave-like conditions.

OTHER EDUCATION

Toureg child preparing dinner in the Sahara desert, Mali

Little girl pounding grains for dinner in St. Louis, Senegal

OTHER EDUCATION

TIMBUKTU, MALI.

CHILD PUTS MUD (SAND, MANURE, H2O) ON HIS HOUSE TO KEEP IT FROM ERODING.

NO TOYS – MANY CHORES

PHYSICAL LABOR: WOMEN

WOMEN HAVE NO TIME TO DO SCHOOL WORK. INSTEAD THEY: BUILD TENT HOMES IN MALI. CHOP WOOD IN SENEGAL. CULTIVATE LAND MIRACULOUSLY WITH LITTLE H20. GIVE BIRTH TO 10-15 CHILDREN.

HEALTH CARE

THERE IS A GOOD CAMPAIGN AGAINST AIDS, BUT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS HINDER ITS FULL EFFECT.

“FIGHT AGAINST AIDS” MURAL IN DAKAR,

HEALTH

MANY REMOTE VILLAGES HAVE “RITES OF PASSAGE” CEREMONIES WHICH STILL INCLUDE EXCISIONS AND INFIBULATIONS OF TEENAGED WOMEN.

HEALTH ISSUES REGARDING WOMENNEED IMPROVEMENT

NO HEALTH ED. AT SCHOOL.NO REGULAR VISITS TO A DOCTORCAN HAVE UP TO 3 CO-WIVES. HIGHER PROBABLY TO SPREAD AIDS AND OTHER SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES.IRREVERENT & UNAWARE OF OVERPOPULATION PROBLEMS. MANY MEN WANT DYNASTIES

HEALTHMalaria: mosquitoesLeprosyYellow feverFood poisoningSleeping sickness: fly larvaFew Medical facilities outside of Dakar: i.e. burned babyTake care of each other

Traditional medicine alive and wellMarabousFaith 2 doctors in my Commune of 120,000 people.Beg tourists for aspirin.Some women rather buy fabric than medication.

FOOD FOR ALL & SAFE WATER

SENEGAL: 3rd worldMALI: 4th world

FACTS & MISCONCEPTIONS-You don’t have to be skinny to

die of malnutrition.-Infants die more often of diarrhea

than malnutrition. -Children die of malnutrition at ages

1 or 2, rather than as infants.

Yummy fresh rice with spicy sauce and chopped veggies

FOOD & WATER ISSUES

USE FINGERS INSTEAD OF UTENSILSCOOK IN SAND OR ON UNSANITARY FLOORLACK OF REFRIGERATIONBUT CAN BUY FOOD BY THE SPOONFUL OR BY THE PILL

FOOD & SAFE WATER

EVERYONE GETS TO EAT A FEW HANDFULS OF FOOD.

NEVER FEEL SATIATED.

BABIES CANNOT CHEW WELL OR PUSH TO GET ENOUGH.

MANY WELLS ARE EITHER VERY DEEP OR ARE RUNNING DRY.

FOOD & WATERAT THE MARKET

SANITATION: Bathing

TOILET AND SHOWER, JUST LIKE IN THE USA?

SANTITATION: RECYCLING

Cleaning up the coast of Senegal. Same waste removal inland. Cost: $2.00 per month, for 3 pick ups a week. At the market, I received peanuts wrapped in paper I had thrown out.

HEALTH & WATER

What a luxury it is to live near a river, stream or lake. It providesa source for washing, bathing, catching fish, and cooling off.

MANY THANKS TO:

THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLTHE FULBRIGHT ASSOCIATIONTHE SENEGALESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONLYCEE MALICK SYINTEL AND MICROSOFTPRESENTATION

BY MARNI GEIST