Location and general information
Categories
Access to Sport - 
Children with disabilities - 
Employability - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Infrastructure and equipment - 
Personal development
Access to Sport - Children with disabilities - Employability - Gender Equality - Healthy lifestyle - Infrastructure and equipment - Personal developmentContext
The political situation in Mali is highly unstable, and relations with France are particularly tense following the European country’s military withdrawal. This instability and widespread conflict contribute to high levels of internal displacement and poverty in one of the poorest countries in the world. In 2012, Libre Vue launched the Blind Solidarity project at the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles in Bamako (a school for 250 visually impaired children living in highly precarious conditions). The association built infrastructure including a special pitch suitable for blind football and started offering regular football coaching.
Project goals
The charity’s next steps as the project continues are to:
- resurface the artificial pitch for blind football in order to improve playing conditions and enable Blind Solidarity to rent it out and therefore become more self-sufficient
- step up educational measures on how to keep the pitch and its surroundings clean and in good condition
- foster the long-term growth of blind football among girls
- use social media to communicate more effectively throughout the country using social network
Project content
- Resurface the artificial pitch for blind football
- Hold regular discussions with the families of girls, in particular
- Implement routine pitch-maintenance measures
- Train the manager of the facilities
Partners
