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 [...]
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 [...]
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The foundation’s November field trip to Morocco proved to be successful in reaching its two-fold aim: to speak with representatives from both governmental and non-governmental sectors with specific knowledge of Amazigh culture and their needs, and secondly, to meet nomadic peoples and witness firsthand, their living conditions and state-of-being. In Rabat, the Sahara Children Foundation [...]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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