Yendouma The village Yendouma Ato is an example of a village which has been integrated into the cliff. Thanks to this sheltered location buildings from … Read more
Koundou Ginna The Dogon Women’s Initiative was founded under the guidance of Jacqti de Leeuw, and has the objective to stimulate the development of the Dogon … Read more
Amani The village Amani is located at the foot of the cliff. It was in this village where SDO realized its first school. Joop always … Read more
Banani Banani is situated at the foot of a cliff, right where the main route from the plateau arrives from Sangha. In the past Americans … Read more
Bore Bore is situated in the plains and is a relatively recent village. It belongs to the community of Koundou. Many of the families of … Read more
Ghamba In 2010 the organization made plans for another three schools. Building schools with three lassrooms in poor villages on the plains is much easier … Read more
Kani Gougona The village of Kani Gougona is situated on the rock plateau 60 km north east of Sangha. In 2002 the first phase was realized … Read more
Kani Kombolé The village Kani Kombolé is one of the villages which got heavily damaged by the actions of El Hadj Omar Tall. Luckily a few … Read more
Koulou Ségué The school in the village Koulou near Ségué is the third in the new series. By building the schools with the same team the … Read more
Koundou In the Koundou villages SDO has realized two wells, one in Koundou Ginna and one at the school The location of the school is … Read more
Kouroundé In the Bankas region you can find the village Kouroundé, which has a beautiful mosque in traditional style. In 1999 during a feastof the … Read more
Ourou Kamba In the Madougou region two schools were built in 2010: one block of three classrooms both in Ouroukamba and in Ghama. The school in … Read more
Pah The village of Pah is located in the Pinari. It’s of modest size and has always been situated on a rock plateau, only accessible … Read more
Sangha renovatie school Sangha is regarded the cultural ‘capital’ of the Dogon. Sangha consists of thirteen quartes, like Ogol Leh and Ogol Dah. In total the Sangha … Read more
Sogoudourkoum In the village Sogoudourkoum the first phase of a school with three classrooms was realized in 2002.The complete school consists of two blocks with … Read more
Timissa The village of Timissa is situated South-West of the Unesco world heritage area, on top of the highland … Read more
Yanda At the village of Yanda two blocks with three classrooms each were realized near the old mud school. Unlike the traditional construction method of … Read more
Yélé Yélé is an isolated village in the west of Mali, near the border of Burkina Faso. In this area many Dogon have converted to … Read more