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In supplying meals to help children learn better in Timbuktu, the World Food Programme supports food producers and retailers in northern Mali
Mahamadou supplies small primary schools with 10kg of mutton a day. Photo: WFP/Virgo Edgar Ngarbaroum
This article marks the International Day of Education (24 January) which recognizes that 258 million children and youth still do not attend school… and celebrates learning heroes
Each morning you can find Assoura Mahamadou hard at work at his butcher’s shop on the outskirts of Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu. For more than three decades, locals have flocked to the Kabara neighbourhood to buy fresh mutton, on display within Mahamadou’s thatched roof shed. One of his many loyal clients is Mariam Traoré, a member of the Kabara primary school’s management committee.