Mali: Roots around the world: urban agriculture in Bamako (Phase III)
Internship Opportunity
Type : Québec Sans Frontières Program
Phase : Universel
Sector : Environment
Malian partner: Clubs Kayira de l'Association des Radios libres Kayira
The free radios Network is an organization that brings together 9 community radios (one in Bamako and 8 in rural areas). Those community radios have been compounded with the Kayira Clubs which are composed with women associations, associations of vulnerable persons or village groups.
Objectives of the internship:
- Enable Quebecois youth to live a significant experience of international solidarity by being in contact with the Malian culture
- Acquire work experience in urban agriculture that has concrete effects on the interns’ personal and professional development
- Promote urban agriculture and environmental practices in Montreal and Bamako
- Support a concrete community experience aimed at increased autonomy
- Share Alternatives' urban agriculture experience and knowledge, in particular in terms of horticulture and permaculture
- Facilitate the integration of interns to an international cooperation organization.
Activities :
- Participate and be introduced to different urban agriculture projects run in Bamako
- Coordinate the creation of gardens with two women's associations in collaboration with our malian partner
- Create a series of workshops on the following topics : ecological water management, development of a growing productive/agricultural space, horticulture techniques, recycling of waste materials, sustainability or urban agriculture and relation with public health
- Participate in the creation of an urban agriculture guide
- Participate in urban farming work with the malian community
Number of participants: 6 interns and one group leader
RECRUITEMENT PROCESS IS NOW OVER. INTERN GROUP IS FULL.
Responsible for project and youth program:
Mélanie
Hughes
(514) 982-6606 extansion 2237