YEAH SAMAKE

HUMANITARIAN

Since 2004, Yeah Samaké has been involved in humanitarian efforts in two major organizations. Being one of the few lucky ones to receive an education thanks to his fathers commitment to education, Yeah Samaké believed that the power to breaking the cycle of poverty would be found in supplying the people of Mali with the tools and resources to accessible education, healthcare, clean energy, clean water and leadership training.

From 2004 to 2013, as the Executive Director of the Daily Dose which later became the Mali Rising Foundation, Yeah Samaké:

• Partnered with Utahn partners and Malian rural villages to help construct 15 middle schools in the rural regions in Mali
• Provided desks, chairs and office supplies for 15 schools
• Donated Computers/Laptops and Printers to the Mali Ministry of Education and schools in the rural regions
• Installed solar panels for the schools in villages where electricity is not readily available
• Provided textbooks in the schools
• Donated 1000+ School kits/hygiene kits to children in the villages
• Donate 9 scholarships from Wasatch Academy in America for students to go to an American high school. These are $48,000/year scholarships and cover the students from 9th-12th and then help place them in colleges.
• Donated medical and dental equipment for hospitals in Oueléssébougou and Bamako.
• Hosted 6 medical missions and 3 dentist missions serving around 4000+ Malian men, women and children;
• Raised $35,000 and 180,000 meals to assist with ongoing Mali refugee crisis.

As the Co-founder and Field Specialist of Empower Mali from 2013 to present, Yeah Samaké has :

• Partnered with US partners and rural communities to build four middle schools
• Built two teachers housing
• Donated four tractors under the Empower Mali food security program
• Hosted a Malian-US summit for 15+ Malian local leaders
• Introduced Samsung tablets into middle schools in Mali to increase access of technology to middle school students
• Helped bring more than 30+ Malian high school and college students to the United States on scholarship
• Sponsored an afterschool tutoring program for sixteen schools and more than 2000+ children
• Installed the first electricity producing playground; The playground charges a battery that then lights up the middle school.
• Facilitated many medical and dental groups that have  provided free medical, dental and eye surgeries and treatments.

Our mission

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Our goals

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AMBASSADOR

In May2015, Samaké was appointed by the President of Mali, H.E Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, to serve as the Ambassador of Mali to 10 countries:  India, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Republic of Bhutan, Kingdom of Malaysia, Republic of Singapore, Republic of Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and Kingdom of Thailand.

Since August 2015, Ambassador Samaké has worked diligently to grow educational, economic, social and technological ties that serve the interests of the people of Mali residing in India and these 9 other countries. Here are just a few of the key highlights of his term so far.

2015

• August 2015: Ambassador Samaké partnered with the Call to Action team in New Delhi to host the Spouse of the President H.E Ibrahim Boubacar KEITA. Madame KEITA Aminata MAIGA, shared her experiences to reduce neonatal and maternal infant mortality, particularly in high-prevalence countries
• September 2015:  Presentation of the Letter of Credence of Ambassador Niankoro Yeah Samaké to the President of India, H.E Pranab Mukherjee
• October 2015: Hosted H.E Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of Mali, at the 3rd Summit of the India - Africa Cooperation Forum in New Delhi. Under the theme "Partners in Progress: Towards a Dynamic and Transformative Development Agenda", the challenges of this Summit were to ensure a bright future, provide quality health care, food security education, access to new technologies among others to the respective peoples, all in a secure environment. India committed scholarships to students from Mali.
• Visited with H.E Hamid ANSARI, Vice President of India where he discussed the political and security situation in Mali and the ways and means to be considered for strengthening the multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.
• Visited with Dr. Mahesh SHARMA, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of India, in the framework of the strengthening of the cooperation between the two countries in these sectors and in particular the promotion of Timbuktu
• Jumpstarted the MOU agreements that had been signed between India and Mali during a 2009 Mali President visit to India. One of these agreements was a 100 million dollar exim bank contract for a construction of a power transmission project connecting Bamako and Sikasso via Bougouni in Mali.
• November 2015: Presentation of the Letter of Credence of Ambassador Niankoro Yeah Samaké to the Sultan of Brunei, His Majesty Hassanal Bolkiah.
• December 2015:  Presentation of the Letter of Credence of Ambassador Niankoro Yeah Samaké to the President of Singapore, H.E Tony Tan
• Overall created a stronger bond between Malian students residing in India and the Embassy of Mali.

2016

Ambassador Samake presented his letters of credence to four of the countries he covers:

• His Excellency Mr. Joko WIDODO, President of the Republic of Indonesia, 02 February 2016
• His Majesty Abdul Halim Muadzan Shah Ibni al-Marhum Sultan Badlishah, King of Malaysia, March 17, 2016
• His Excellency Mr. Maithripala SIRISENA, President of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, on 22 April 2016
• His Excellency Mohammad Abdul Hamid, President of the Republic of Bangladesh, on 27 June 2016
• February 2016: H.E Samaké visited with the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kolkata State (India) to exchange on how businessmen from Kolkata can make investments in trade, energy, water, mines, agriculture and tourism.
• Represented Mali at the 5th Extraordinary Summit of the Islamic countries on Palestine
• March 2016: Partnered with the Government of Indonesia to give visa on arrival to Malian citizens. As a sign of reciprocity, Mali also extended the same courtesy to Indonesians entering Mali.
• March 2016: Hosted members of the Malian Ministry of Promotion of Investment and Private Sector and businessmen from different branches of business in Mali. The goal was to grow the business relationship and investments between Mali and India.
• April 2016: Led a delegation of Indian businessmen from the Indian Texpreneurs Federation to Mali in order to help Indian businesses explore investment opportunities in Mali in the cotton sector. The delegation met with the Minister of Agriculture; the Minister of Promotion of Investment and Private Sector, the Minister of Trade and Industry and the Chairman and CEO of the Malian Textile Development Company (CMDT).
• MOU signed for partnership in irrigation, farm mechanization, post-harvest management, and technological transfers with the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the Coimbatore Hospital Center June 2016
• Visit to Indonesia to search for training and equipment of the Malian Defense and Security Forces
• September 2016: Thanks to the persistent efforts of Ambassador Samaké to grow the relations between Mali and India, the Vice President of India H.E Hamid Ansari visited Mali in the first high-level visit of its kind. During this visit, the Indian party made the following assistance commitments:
  
  Financial aid of US $ 500,000 to the Ministry of Culture for the rehabilitation of the Timbuktu manuscripts
  
  Donation of 2 armored vehicles for security
  
  Donation of 5 vehicles for Foreign Affairs Ministry.
  
  Project to build an English Language Center in Bamako
• September 2016: Working visit with the Confederation of Chambers of Commerce in Bangladesh to strengthen political, economic and military cooperation between Mali and Bangladesh. Agreement was made for Bangladesh Military to offer military training scholarships to Mali officers and non-commissioned officers.
• October 2016: mobilized five (05) scholarships at Barefoot College, a training center that specializes in teaching solar energy electrification to rural women. The Malian recipients successfully completed their course in 2017.

2017

• Hosted H.E Mr. Konimba Sidibe, Minister of Investment Promotion and Private
• Sector, for two visits to India.  The first to attend the 12th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Partnership in March, 2017 in New Delhi, and the second in May 2017 to represent Mali at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank in Gujarat.
• March 2017: Hosted Minister of State for External Affair of India, H.E. Mobashar Jawed Akbar on an official visit to Mali in March 2017. During his visit, Mali and India held the very first Joint Commission to Evaluate and put in perspective the bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
• April 2017: Launched the first Friends of Mali organization in India at Karnataka College in North Bengaluru.

"When we embrace the world will embrace us."

Our mission

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Our goals

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