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
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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. Her two oldest children take turns to attend the local nomad tent school where they are learning to read and write in Arabic and French [...]
Give a hoot, Give a Goat!
Tue, Nov 23, 2010
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 [...]
Mission brings Med Students and Peace Corps together in Oulillimt
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
Sahara Children has collaborated with Loyola University and Mugamara Expeditions to provide funding for a new mission designed to offer healthcare instruction and medical supplies to nomad families of the Sahara Desert. Medical students from Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine met in Morocco on June 14 to set up a five-day camp [...]
Improving the Lives of the Nomads
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
In the Sahara Desert, owning a herd of goats, sheep, or camels is the livelihood of nomads. On January 1, Sahara Children helped a young nomad couple in Erg Chegaga in south-eastern Morocco get a kick start to their new life together. Abelhamid and Khadija, around 20 years of age, have nothing and no means [...]
Sahara Children Initiates Animal Banking
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
Micro-financing is a way of helping poor farmers or small business owners by providing small loans to help them kick- start their businesses or make investments in the future. But how do you provide start up capital to poor populations, such as nomadic groups, who do not deal with money? For the nomads in Morocco their herds of [...]
Sahara Children Provides Supplies to Nomad Families
Mon, Jul 20, 2009
Many nomadic families in Morocco live in difficult conditions in remote areas. In the mountainous area close to the Dades and Todra Gorges in the High Atlas live a group of around twenty nomadic families. Sahara Children is supporting these families with care packages intended to help them live a bit more comfortably in the [...]
Providing Aid: Tamtattouchte and into Dades Gorge
Wed, Jul 15, 2009
(Journal by Liz Williams, July 2009) Part One We drive along the Todra Gorge to Tamtattouchte, north of this traditional Berber village to leave the paved road and cross a new piste (off-road) that leads up and over the mountains to Msemir and Dades Gorge. Along this route we expect to meet several nomad families. [...]
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