Mission Sahel is an apolitical and non-profit NGO operating in Mali for the past 26 years. Its mission is to contribute to the promotion of community initiatives at grassroots level through communication, information and training actions. As such, it acts as a reference NGO aiming to contribute towards the organisational and institutional strengthening of community-based organisations. It intervenes in the areas of information, education and training, as well as programmatic areas relating to WaSH, agriculture, food safety, and environmental protection. The organisation moreover addresses mother and child health, and runs micro credit programmes.