Since Mali has experienced at least 40 major climate shocks between 1970 and 2020, with drought affecting about 400,000 persons each year...a focus on replanting native plants to increase the rainfall of your country and eliminate atmospheric dust, may be the best work that your students could do to help your country.

Read my proposal that the Saudi government adopted in August 2010 at https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool.html to start that work in ARABIA, where they are currently planting ONE MILLION TREES per week, to get 10 BILLION planted under their "SAUDI GREEN INITIATIVE".

And have all of your students start looking for the Pseudomonas host plants, that create the rainfall for your country--read https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/does-rain-come-from-life-in-the-clouds

On the leaves of certain trees in the forest are where these bacteria live, and when they get airborne in a rain storm, they form new rain clouds. Call "Cloud forests" worldwide is where all of our rain cloud start. We have been having a lot of discussion at https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_change_or_water_resource_management_Which_has_caused_the_intensification_of_dust_storms_in_the_Middle_East

Finding those forests via time lapse satellite water vapor images, then looking in those forests to find the host plants, would provide Mali with knowledge worth its weight in gold. Image attached of a new rain cloud getting born, and the water vapor image of a cloud forest in Iran making new rain clouds.

ANY development in Mali, sustainable to not, needs a solid environmental foundation to build upon—by focusing on the elimination of droughts, by increasing the annual rainfall, and eliminating the atmospheric dust--where that Dust Cloud contributes to creating those droughts. Image today from https://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/shared-bin/display_image.cgi?URL=/aerosol_web/globaer/ops_01/sahara/current.png

of the Dust Cloud that is impacting on your rainfall right now.