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 [...]
Tuesday, November 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 [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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