Muso

A decade ago a small group of Malians and Americans came together to address the injustices of health and poverty they witnessed around them. Working together out of a converted storage closet, they founded "Muso," a non-profit that is revolutionizing how quickly communities access care for sick children. Muso is the word for "woman" in the local Malian Bamanankan language - and Muso has been woman- and community-led from its inception.

Muso trains and manages Community Health Workers (CHWs) who walk door to door, often in the blazing sun, finding and treating patients in their homes. Yirimadjo, an urban slum in Mali where Muso began serving one hundred people over a decade ago, has grown to an area of over 150,000 people. And in these communities, the death of a child has become rare. We want to make the change we’ve seen in Yirimadjo the story of our world, and in 2016 the Muso team began the expansion; we now serve over 300,000 people across Mali.