Un Techo para mi País (A Roof for my Country)

With «Un Techo para mi País», the rally’s action is focused on emergency housing. For the fourth year in a row, the Dakar has provided its support to this charity which implements wide-ranging initiatives. Here are the key points of the rally’s contribution :

• 510, 000 dollars in 4 years
• 250 emergency houses built thanks to these donations
• Social reintegration projects set up for families benefitting from such aid (literacy development structures, computer equipment, etc.)
• Competitors and sponsors joining in and supporting “Un Techo para mi País”, following in the footsteps of the organisers.
• A contribution is also taken from the registration fees paid by all competitors who have entered the Dakar : as a result, an extra 30,000 euros will be donated to “Un Techo para mi Pais”.

www.untechoparamipais.org

Since 2002, A.S.O. and SOS Sahel have worked together to implement and develop the Actions Dakar programme, which seeks to promote the development of good environmental practices (savings in firewood, innovative irrigation systems, micro-cropping, the optimisation of waste collection methods, etc.). The projects are set up and monitored in cooperation with committees of villagers involved in every step of their accomplishment. Apart from several initiatives in Mauritania and Mali, the aid has been focused on the region of Louga, in Eastern Senegal. Its main achievements are as follows :

• More than 700,000 euros have been devoted by A.S.O. to Actions Dakar since the start of the project.
• 163 micro-projects have been set up (from € 2,000 to € 5,000 per project, in order to enable small-scale coordination by committees of villagers).
• 331,000 people have directly benefited from the improvement in hygiene conditions and in particular progress in combating desertification.