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Announcing the 2017 Young Artist and Author Showcase!

The Richmond Sister Cities Commission and the Richmond Public Library is sponsoring the Young Artist and Author Showcase...Deadline is the 17th of February 2017. Please encourage Richmond's youth to participate with our Sister Cities. The 2017 Theme: We’re Going Places Sister Cities International aims to promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation – one individual, one community at a time. This year’s theme, "We’re Going Places," showcases the importance of travel and exchange in achieving peace. Students are encouraged to draw inspiration from their experience with sister cities, travel, exchange, international friendships, and their goals to present their vision of where the future will lead. The Richmond Sister Cities Commission will provide the following Cash prizes: 1st Place - $100.00 2nd Place - $75.00 3rd Place - $50.00 The 1st Place winners in each category will move onto Sister Cities International Competition with opportu

9/23 Benefit Concert & GoFundMe for Girls' Empowerment

As of August 31, 2016, the well is essentially complete. A cement cap and steel access door with lock was installed after this photo was taken.  Help finish the well and build for girls' empowerment with The Richmond House in Segou! 

Fond memory from 2010

Coulibaly brothers' Bogolan Workshop, 2010, Artisan at work - one-handed!

After 7 year hiatus, Mali to hold mayoral elections

According to an announcement by the president's office of the Malian government, the country will hold mayoral elections nationwide on November 20, 2016. The race in Richmond's sister city, Segou, will be between several candidates including Mayor Ousmane K. Simaga (incumbent since 2009) and current city councilllor (and Segou sister city commissioner) Madani Sissoko. Both men will be part of the delegation travelling to Richmond in October as guests of VFOM with assistance from the Richmond Sister City Commission. Stay tuned for details on their visit.    ------------ Mali: élections municipales le 20 novembre (officiel) Following excerpt translated by Google Translate. Click the link above to see entire story, in French. Malians are called to elect their mayors November 20 "throughout the national territory", seven years after the last municipal elections in this country plagued by unrest, the government said Wednesday.  The Council of Ministers met on W

LOOK OUT FOR THE NEW BOOK ON MALI

to be published in the Fall of 2016 by Edwin Mellen Press: The Limits of Democracy and the Post-Colonial Nation State: Mali’s Democratic Experiment Falters while Jihad and Terrorism Grow in the Sahara by Robin Edward Poulton and Raffaella Greco Tonegutti This book is a follow-up to the famous peace study A PEACE OF TIMBUKTU (1998). It tells the story of Mali's failures since the turn of the millennium, including the how and why Al Qaida and ISIS rose to prominence and helped undermine the democracy of Mali and the stability of the Sahara.

Richmond House / Maaya Musow: Finish the Well Campaign

Dear Friends, We have launched a GoFundMe campaign to Finish the Segou-Richmond House Well . We are so CLOSE! In mid July the digging had reached 9.8 meters and struck water. The next phase is to construct the stabilizing walls, apron foundation and apron, pump system and well cover. All before the rains inundate the worker's efficacy. Once the well is finished we can proceed to the next step: constructing the first building. You can be part of something long lasting, effective and wonderful. Download information on the Segou-Richmond House project . Give to this effort. Consider a long term commitment to it as well. THEN... Join us on Friday, September 23, at the Neighborhood Resource Center at Fulton Hill for a National Mali Day concert to benefit the Richmond House / Maaya Musow project. Thank you!
“Here in Mali we say that the first cup is bitter like life, the second is sweet like love and the third is soft, like the breath of a dying man.”