Dioro, Mali

Dioro, Mali
Dioro
—  Commune and town  —
Country  Mali
Region Ségou Region
Cercle Ségou Cercle
Population (1998)
 – Total 20,539
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Dioro is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 20,539.[1]

In 2009, Renzo Rosso, the founder and President of Diesel and the OTB-Group (Only The Brave), together with Millennium Promise, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and UNDP, launched the Only The Brave Millennium Village, in Dioro, Mali. Following the model of the Millennium Villages, which helps communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty, the first steps in Mali included distributing seeds and fertilizers to boost agriculture, providing bed nets to decrease malaria, and the constructing a new health clinics. Additionally, a new primary school, equipped and run with solar panels, was built with expanded classrooms, latrines for boys and girls and a new school kitchen. In the spring of 2010 Rosso visited the village to personally oversee the development."[2]


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Coordinates: 12°50′N 6°30′W / 12.833°N 6.5°W / 12.833; -6.5


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