Children of the Sahara Foundation

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 arid and sometimes cold climate without disrupting their unique culture and livelihood.

Sahara Children’s Liz Williams and Abdoullah Bassou traveled from Marrakech through Telouet and onward into the desert by 4×4 with kits for each nomadic family designed for sustenance and sustainability: Oil for cooking in containers that can be recycled for water, rice, natural soap for washing clothes, shampoo, cream for hands, sealable containers, honey, sardines, towels, and tea.

Liz chronicles her visit in a two-part journal:
(Click to read each entry).

Part One: Arriving in Tamtattouchte and into Dades Gorge
Part Two: A Night with a Nomadic Family

A nomad camp in the High Atlas Mountains.

A nomad tent provides shelter.
Photos by Liz Williams