One of the first projects that we have off the ground involves teaching women to make soap. Today was the first day of the first training class in an area known as Niamana, just south of Bamako.
We travelled to the Catholic Retreat |Centre there, which is playing host to the classes. 18 families were represented in this first class, from towns such as Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal - all hundreds of kilometers from home and driven out by war.
The aim is not just to teach soap making, thus saving their family money and also improving hygiene, but to give them a skill that they can take home to start a business. We are also given them the start up equipment and their first batch of ingredients to get started. Even before they return home, they will be able to create an income stream for their families.
Over the next three weeks we will be teaching 60 women displaced to the areas south of Bamako city this skill.
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