Mali’s literacy project taught thousands of young people to read and write. Trump’s USAID cuts shut it all down

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Mali’s literacy project taught thousands of young people to read and write. Trump’s USAID cuts shut it all down

fortune.com/2025/05/21/usaid-cuts-end-mali-literacy-project-shifin-ni-tagne

For Aminata Doumbia, an 18-year-old Malian, the “Shifin ni Tagne” project was a path for her life dreams. A phrase meaning “our future” in the country’s main local language, it refers to a yearslong program aimed at teaching around 20,000 young Malians to read and write in their local…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-05-21 15:55:40.