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 [...]
Monday, January 2, 2012
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