Donate to the Nomad Foundation

Loading…

Donate to one of our causes:

  • Sponsor Students
  • Tamesna Center for Nomadic Life
  • Cataract Mission
  • Motorcycle Repair Training
  • Traditional Birth Attendant Training
  • Drill the Well for Tamesna
  • Buy an animal for a nomad
  • Buy Jewelry
  • Sponsor a Matrone
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The NOMAD Foundation

seeking to balance cultural tradition...with economic opportunity

  • Home
  • Current Causes
    • Sponsor Students
    • Sponsor a Matrone
    • Buy an animal for a nomad
    • Drill the Well for Tamesna
    • Traditional Birth Attendant Training 2020
    • Motorcycle Repair Training
    • Cataract Mission
    • Nomad Gal Jewelry
  • Projects
    • Tamesna Center for Nomadic Life
    • Water
      • Wells
    • Food
      • Agricultural Development
      • Cereal Banks
    • Health
      • Medical Clinic
      • Traditional birth attendant and Healthcare Training
    • Education
      • Boarding School
      • Solar Fabrication and Installation
      • Schools
    • Work
      • Earthbag Building
      • Solar Fabrication and Installation
      • Women’s Co-ops
      • Herds
    • Mali projects
  • About
    • About the Nomad Foundation
    • Leslie Clark – Founder
    • Sidi Mamane – Niger Representative
    • Press
    • Nomad Board of Directors
    • Accomplishments
    • Awards and Grants
    • Friends and Partners
    • About Niger
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Facebook

DONATE NOW

Microcredit for the Wodaabe women of Fidouk

October 27, 2011 by leslieclark 1 Comment

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 her daughter Danda is one of our star solar students.  It is fun to watch her soldering, drilling and assembling panels with her baby on her back.
I had a long meeting with Gami and she agreed to get the men of the camp to make the adobe bricks, and bring the water.  The women will weave the mats and gather the wood for the roof.  The money will go to pay for a door and window and pay a mason to build it.  The student microcredit organization at Thacher donated  $442.24 which was loaned and  the nomad foundation pitched in the other $599.42 to complete the amount needed which is a total of 500.000 cfa or $1041.00.

I hope to bring back some beautiful examples so that you can purchase them to help the women pay back their loan.  Then we can loan it to someone else. 

Spread the Word:

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • More
  • WhatsApp
  • Email

Category General| Women's Co-operatives

Previous
A tough day
Next
NIF PIF–Trying to do business in Niger

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. de ryckel Louis

    October 28, 2011 at 1:17 am

    bonjour leslie
    comme je suis fort intéresse par tout ce qui se passe dans le village de Foudouk je voudrais réagir à la création de ce batiment pour le travail des femmes .cela me semble une excellente idée .
    je sais que les broderies des femmes de foudouk sont tres belles car une de nos amies a reçu de Doula un magnifique tissu brodé mais j’aimerai savoir si la commercialisation de ces tissus brodés est organisée ?La fondation vend elle ces tissus aux USA. ?quel métrage? assez pour faire une jupe?
    A quel prix en FCFA?
    La cooperative des femmes possède elle des chêvres?
    je ne comprends pas ce que signifie”the student microcredit organisation at Thacher “? est- ce une ong americaine?

    Ce que vous expliqué sur les droits de douane est tout simplement scandaleux mais n’est pas étonnant dans un pays en voie de développement; ce qui m’inquiète plus c’est de savoir si le travail de montage (assembling)des panneaux pourra continuer lorsque la fondation ou vous même ne serz plus présent!
    qu’en pensez vous?
    bon courage Louis

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

How To Help

  • Sponsor Students
  • Tamesna Center for Nomadic Life
  • Cataract Mission
  • Motorcycle Repair Training
  • Traditional Birth Attendant Training
  • Drill the Well for Tamesna
  • Buy an animal for a nomad
  • Buy Jewelry
  • Sponsor a Matrone

Posts From the Field

Friends running for Office

Help for Iferouane Students, Artisans, Seamstresses and Matrones

Malaria

Mission 2020–The work goes on during the pandemic

COVID-19 mission to the nomads

Our first local training mission in Iferouane

Niger

niger

Footer

Stay in Touch

We send occasional newsletters about our projects, events and efforts.

View the Nomad Gallery site

The Nomad Foundation, a US 501(c) 3 Corporation

Tax ID # 20-8170046

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.