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Welcome
The African Workshop works with kids, artists and musicians in Mali. Together we run a community centre in Bamako, one of the world’s poorest cities.
Kids can drop in for free music lessons, to borrow a football or to paint. They can also come to hang out with other young people, enjoy a hot meal or just play. The workshop also offers literacy classes, health advice and vital training. More than anything it lets kids be kids.
Latest News
Doné, doné!=bit by bit
It has been incredible to be back here. Sitting out at the Workshop as the sun sets and the dust sinks slowly to the cooling earth is beautiful. The blackboard has the day’s kindergarden lesson chalked on it and the slates have been cleaned and stacked. Kids appear out of the trees on their way [...]
Bamako and Baggage
I arrived in Bamako last Sunday. I was only three hours late and I stumbled happily into the dark heat of a Malian night, pen ready for the forms they give you in a room without a biro in sight… the queues for a pen I could tell you about!
The other passengers drained away and [...]
Happy New Year to all our supporters
Hope you all had a restful yuletide and have hit the 2010 ground running! The African workshop sure have!
It’s that time of year again to board that flight with bags of goodies for the brilliant community of Yiri Madjos in Bamako. Ben is taking a solo trip this year to see how the project is [...]