Amicale des Mères Maraîchères-Avicultrices (AMAVI) Senegal

Its formation came in response by a group of professional women to directly address certain deficiencies they observed in their country.   Senegal is in West Africa, bounded by Mauritania to the North, Mali to the East, Guinea-Bissau and Conakry to the South and Gambia at the Center, West the Atlantic Ocean. Its population is about 15.085.000 with a land area of 196.712 square kilometers. Its population density is 64 person per square kilometer. A human development report by the United Nation in 2019 indicated. Senegal was twenty-first lowest in the standard of living, ranking 168rd out of 189 countries. The founders of AMAVI made it the association’s mission to address this situation in a very effective way, at the grass roots local level. AMAVI’s mission is to eliminate poverty, certain health risks, and improve the overall quality of life, through education. The education efforts focus on the most needful members of Senegal’s citizens. These are primary at risk young adults, orphans, and single mothers who lack support form a husband. The efforts are to give general education to the young, vocational training to the older and household home making skills to the mothers. Sadly, many mothers are never taught such basics as on public health threats such as AIDS and STDS are within the scope of AMAVI’S efforts