Country Snapshot: Mali and Ambassador’s Girls’
Scholarship Program
The current U.S. Ambassador
to Mali, Vicki Huddleston, and USAID proposed a girls’
scholarship program for the nomadic population in north
Mali. A $6 million fund will support 7,086 school girls
with student-teacher scholarships and tutoring each
year for five years.
The geographic focus of this program
is in the underdeveloped Timbaktu, Kidal and Gao areas
of northern Mali.
Child Marriage
