Children of the Sahara Foundation

Connecticut High School Supports Sahara Children

High school junior Caroline Corbally recently started a club at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut to raise money for Sahara Children. Her club hosted a bake sale in March 2012 where fellow students offered cookies, cupcakes, brownies, and rice krispies for sale. A similar event at the school followed in May. All proceeds donated [...]

Medical Mission: Follow-up Report

During the summer of 2010 Sahara Children supported a group of medical students from Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago on a field trip to the Sahara Desert in Morocco. We first reported this story in July 2010. The students, assisted by Moroccan nurses, traditional birth attendants, and volunteers surveyed around 100 children, [...]

Desert Journal: Your Contributions in Action

From the success of our WInter 2010-11 fundraiser, your charitable donations help mobilize our efforts in the desert. Liz William’s chronicles her latest journey to deliver goats: I set off from Marrakech on the 3rd October, across the highest Atlas road pass of Tizi-n-Tichka with hair-pin mountain bends, to the Sahara dunes of the Erg [...]

Delivering Goats

As part of Sahara Children’s animal banking initiative, on New Year’s Day 2011, Sahara delivered five goats to Issa, a nomad woman without a husband but with four young children. Issa and her family live a simple life in a simple wool tent surrounded by stones on the desert floor [...]

Give a hoot, Give a Goat!

Sahara Children is proud to introduce our 2010 holiday season fund-raising gift campaign which continues our animal banking initiative to help poor nomadic families in Morocco start or enhance their herd with the loan of a couple of goats. Now you can give a goat to help a family provide for themselves in the coming winter months [...]