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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, July 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 [...]
Monday, July 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 [...]
Wednesday, July 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. [...]
Monday, January 2, 2012
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