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MALI / ELECTRICITY
STORY: MALI / ELECTRICITY
TRT: 2:12
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / BAMBARA / NATS
DATELINE: OCTOBER 2010, SERIBALA, MALI
1. Wide shot, Maimouna preparing food in her restaurant
2. Wide shot, man entering the restaurant and Maimouna in background
3. Med shot, Maimouna cooking
4. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Maimouna Sacko, Restaurant Owner:
“It has changed a lot to have electricity. Before, I needed a generator and it was expensive to pay for its fuel. I use the electricity also in the daytime for the fridge.”
5. Close up, rice being prepared
6. Close up, Maimouna
7. Med shot, Maimouna serving customers
8. Close up, florescent light on ceiling
9. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Maimouna Sacko, Restaurant Owner:
“It is not even comparable to before. Now I work at night and also in the daytime I can sell cold drinks so I am selling more now than before.”
10. Wide shot, streets at night
11. Med shot, sign on street at night
12. Med shot, family in dark in their house
13. Wide shot, private power station
14. Med shot, inside station with Kibili working
15. Close up, Kibili
16. Close up, hand on machine
17. Close up, hand on controls
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Kibili Demba, Administrator, Seribala Power Station:
“All development depends on electricity. We can’t progress in obscurity. The people were in obscurity before we came. Now the city is doing well.”
19. Med shot, Kibili working in station
20. Med shot, street light
21. Med shot, Amadou in his store
22. SSOUNDBITE (French) Amadou Drame, Store Owner:
“We are happy. Even if the bill is sometimes expensive, I do all I can to pay and if there is a problem, the company comes and fixes it immediately.”
23. Med shot, Amadou serving customer, night
24. Wide shot, exterior of store with Amadou and customer
It’s dark out, but Maimouna Sacko is still working.
She owns this small restaurant in the city of Seribala in central Mali. Until recently, she served only breakfast and lunch.
SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Maimouna Sacko, Restaurant Owner:
“It has changed a lot to have electricity. Before, I needed a generator and it was expensive to pay for its fuel. I use the electricity also in the daytime for the fridge.”
Maimouna now gets electricity from a nearby power station as a part of a national energy project, supported by the World Bank.
The project is providing electricity to thousands of households, public institutions and businesses like Maimouna’s.
SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Maimouna Sacko, Restaurant Owner:
“It is not even comparable to before. Now I work at night and also in the daytime I can sell cold drinks so I am selling more now than before.”
Only 24 percent of Mali’s population has access to electricity. That rate is even lower in rural areas like Seribala, where only about 13 percent of people have access.
The energy project is reversing that by paying local private sector companies to operate off-grid power stations, like the one providing energy to Seribala.
SOUNDBITE (French) Kibili Demba, Administrator, Seribala Power Station:
“All development depends on electricity. We can’t progress in obscurity. The people were in obscurity before we came. Now the city is doing well.”
The project funds almost 50 private companies to manage about 80 power stations across the country. The stations provide power to 650,000 people and about 803 public institutions.
The Seribala Power Station provides electricity to shop owner Amadou Drame.
SOUNDBITE (French) Amadou Drame, Store Owner:
“We are happy. Even if the bill is sometimes expensive, I do all I can to pay and if there is a problem, the company comes and fixes it immediately.”
Amadou says since getting electricity he does business until two in the morning, and is able to meet the needs of his two wives and 11 children.
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