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 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 [...]
Monday, December 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 [...]
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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