OREM — Utah golfers won't just aim for the green this September.
They also are aiming to help educate children in Tentou, a small village in Mali, West Africa.
The Daily Dose Foundation, a Utah-based nonprofit organization, is hosting a golf tournament at Cascade Golf Center, 1313 E. 800 North, Orem, to benefit children in Mali by building a schoolhouse.
Participants will donate money in exchange for a golf game Sept. 20.
Mali ambassador H.E. Abdoulaye Diop will be in Orem to participate.
"This is a remote place — quite isolated," Daily Dose Foundation vice chairman Alan Wilkes said. "Our efforts are to raise the level of education in that country, reduce poverty and the feeling of isolation by building schools and creating a bond with communities in Utah."
The Daily Dose Foundation hopes to raise $10,000 to build classrooms and provide learning materials to the village.
The villages involved in the program usually provide 30 percent of the funds for the building and the foundation provides the other 70 percent, according to Wilkes.
The Malian government has agreed to find and support a teacher and provide curriculum for the school.
The country has a 15 percent literacy rate. As few as 26 percent of adults know how to read or write in Mali and less than half of the country's villages have schools.
Registration will begin at 7 a.m., with tee off at 8 a.m.
Registration fees range from $50 to $2,500.
To register and find more information, call 957-6254, visit www.dailydosefoundation.org or e-mail register@dailydosefoundation.org