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Tostan
Senegal roots
Source review: 2026-10-05
Your guide to Tostan
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Reported work and places
Education; Children and youth; Protection and inclusion; Livelihoods. Reported activity: Senegal; Mali; Guinea-Bissau; Gambia.
Its 2025 annual report describes local-language learning, child school enrolment and civil registration, community microloans, women’s practical skills training, and conflict mediation in West Africa. Local initiatives and referrals are distinguished from direct clinical care; future scale targets are excluded.
Evidence dated 2025-12-31. Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date.
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Who receives your money
- Organization roots
- Senegal
- Roots and operating base
- Founded in Senegal in 1991 by American founder Molly Melching; West African community-led education organization now headquartered in Thiès. Its US legal recipient is separately identified.
- Reviewed legal entity
- Tostan Inc. · United States
- Named recipient
- Tostan Inc. · United States
- Giving route
- Official named bank transfer or cheque instructions
Use the official Give by Check or USA-only wire instructions naming Tostan Inc. General programme support is not automatically restricted to a country or individual. The page also retains obsolete AmazonSmile and old US tax text; those options and tax claims are excluded from this route review.
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Country evidence and reporting periods
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Senegal
Community-led school enrolment and birth registration, women’s skills training and start-up support, and community microloans are reported for 2025.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Country Insights Senegal; Reintegration of Women in Detention; Economic Inclusion across 3 Countries
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Annual report uses a 365-day reporting-period window. Reported downstream outcomes and repayment rates are not independently audited; mediation is not material emergency relief.
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Learning sessions and community peace committees mediated land and household disputes; caregiver learning also supported children’s education and registration.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Conflict Prevention in Mali; Early Childhood, School Access & Civil Registration
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Annual report uses a 365-day reporting-period window. Reported downstream outcomes and repayment rates are not independently audited; mediation is not material emergency relief.
Read this country’s evidence (opens in a new tab)Guinea-Bissau
Community teachers received support and training, and individuals received grants and microloans.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Country Insights Guinea-Bissau; Economic Inclusion across 3 Countries
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Annual report uses a 365-day reporting-period window. Reported downstream outcomes and repayment rates are not independently audited; mediation is not material emergency relief.
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Parenting education, community microloans and local governance learning were delivered.
Reporting period: Calendar 2025 year-end marker; not a single delivery day or publication date. · Early Childhood, School Access & Civil Registration; Economic Inclusion across 3 Countries; Country Insights The Gambia
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Annual report uses a 365-day reporting-period window. Reported downstream outcomes and repayment rates are not independently audited; mediation is not material emergency relief.
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Minimum public-source checks passed on 2026-10-05: named identity, official presence, recent reported activity and an authorized giving route with an identifiable recipient.
Minimum public-source checks only. Identity and delivery statements may be organization-reported. Live registry standing, bank ownership, payment settlement, use of an individual gift and field outcomes were not independently audited. No payment made. Evidence describes its stated reporting period, not guaranteed delivery today. Annual report uses a 365-day reporting-period window. Reported downstream outcomes and repayment rates are not independently audited; mediation is not material emergency relief.
Official giving page identifies Tostan Inc. as a US 501(c)(3), EIN 98-0118876, and names the cheque and wire beneficiary.
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