HAOUA TOURÉ, is president of the Gouna Tiere Association in Timbuktu, Mali (meaning "union or being together" in their dialect), created by a group of women in 2008 to raise a fund that would serve to meet the needs members of the group and work together on the healthiness of the city and the health of their families, by eliminating anarchic dumps from neighborhoods.
The association, which currently has 200 women from all social categories, aims to ensure the integration and participation of women in the challenges related to environmental protection and sanitation, through the transformation of waste into material that can serve the community.
Since 2016, Haoua and his team have been carrying out environmental activities which consist of collecting plastic waste and transforming it into cobblestone bricks (slabs to help clean up the city by preventing the stagnation of wastewater and garbage from entering in the ground), or in works of art (azalai camel, Alfarouk knight, canoe, flower pots, etc.)
On the other hand, they regularly organize sanitation days to raise household awareness of waste management.
