Every year for 15 years we have done some kind of project in Iferouane, a community that has proved to be very industrious and very worthy of the things we do. After severe flooding last year we helped rehabilitate potato gardens. Still suffering from the loss of their herds in that flooding, this year we […]
Women's Co-operatives
Jewelry
Still in mourning about having to cancel all our volunteers (see two previous posts) and trying to recover. I thought I would be coming home early, but we have decided I am needed to help with the festival and have been granted permission to go with the President of the Regional Council of Agadez (the […]
Iferouane
Iferouane is the gate to the Tenere desert. It was always a prosperous town full of artisans and gardeners. The location was one that all tourists would pass by and so a thriving community of jewelers and leatherworkers grew and a small museum was built. In January of 2007, it was the site of the […]
Eyeglasses from Eyes on Africa
Eyes on Africa, once again generously donated 12 dozen pairs of eyeglasses of various magnifications which we distribute at the clinic. We also take them on our mobile missions. The women at Foudouk are particularly in need of them because they do so much fine embroidery work. Linda Lamb, Rene Briggs and Linda Taylor took […]
Mission accomplished, in spite of…
To summarize and amazingly productive trip–in spite of all the frustrations we got it done. To start out with, because of fears for our security we were forced to pay for a 20 man security detail. But-inspite-of taking a big chunk out of our budget, they turned out to be very competent, we had NO […]
Microcredit for the Wodaabe women of Fidouk
Today I met with Gami, the president of the Wodaabe women’s co-op at Fidouk. The women had asked over a year ago, for the loan to build a house for the women to gather and work on their sewing projects. This group is very well organized and masterful at embroidery. Gami is the president and […]
