Task	Location	Key elements	People involved	Results	Comments
Follow up of new initioatives on link schools.	Sangare School.	Checking out the idea for two new links to be made	Link Worker and Sangare staff	Partners are keen to become involved with the 2 new schools and await further developments..	They would like regular reports on progress from the Link Worker.
	Lycée Mamadou M’Bodj	Discussion of new link suggested by MDG	Link Worker and Head of Mamadou M’Bodj	As above	Links are being maintained but the main priooprity is for MDg to establish a suitable link school in England
Assessment of needs and requests made by certain communities during the MDG january visit.	Manankoro	- Checking out ideas with the local community and the local J and D team	Link Worker, J and D team leader and the head of the market garden.	- the project is going well, but more analysis and costing of the proposals made by the women’s group are needed.	Further work on the expressed needs will be undertaken and communicated to the Secretary of MDG.
	Lemouroutoumou	As above	Link Worker, and those involved in the market garden and Passerelle project.	More work needs to be done on the proposals being suggested by the women’s group.   The project developed by those working on the Passerelles project was seen as ready to be sent on to MDG.	More work will be done on the women’s group proposals     The passerelle project should be seen as a priority in terms of equipment and improving the building.
	Farabalé	Helping the local community develop their proposal and discussing this with the J and D team	Link worker, J and D manakoro Co-ordinator , and members of the committee of the Farabalé maternity clinic.	A plan to revitalise the committee is in procès of being implemented. In due course detailed proposals will be presented.
	Wogona	Mobilising their help to support the people at Farabale in developing their proposal..   Their request for support on pharamceutical equipment and products has been completed and sent to MDG	Link Worker, J and D Team Co-ordinator and the local committee at Wogona.	Project plan sent to MDG	-
Helping at the launch of the barrage	Mafélé	Involving the local people, the entrepreneur and others	Link Worker, J and D team and the entrepreneur	The event went well, and the entrepreneur has co-operated very well with the local community.
Follow up work with the Reproductive Health	Bamako	Facilitating certain aspects of the programme.	Link Worker and Reproductive Health team	- Condom distribution - Counsulting with Peer Educators on issues which caused problems for them and reporting back. - Providing cover for Peer Educators in the absence of the Reproductive Health Team, who were training new Peer Educators during this period.

Task	Location	Key elements	People involved	Results	Comments
Researching the price of cotton sacks and clothing	Bamako	Establishing how much each item would cost to produce using fair traded Malian cotton, and made by young people from the micro projets.	Link Worker, Tailors, Micro-projet co-ordinator, and Kader Keita.	- Esimates were obtained   - The copst of the dresses would be 5,700 CFA   the blouses would be 4,000 CFA   The bags would be 875 CFA   These prices are inclusive of labour and material.	-The young people concerned are very keen for this project to work
Work with questionnaires in Commune IV	Bamako	Mobilising domestic helpers/carers to take part in the work	Link Worker and carers in Commune IV.	Information from a sample of carers has been taken to assess key issues about their problems.	This project is running late –analysis of the responses to the Survey is now underway.
Looking after the two british engineers.	J&D/ Bamako	Successfuk orientation period in Bamako followed by installation in Mafele and then later return to Bamako and then home.	Link Worker and management team of J and D	The visit and the project went very well. They created a very good impression and went on to spend some time in Segou and Mopti	J and D was very proud to have received MDG’s British partners.