Every year we check in with the matrones just before the rainy season which usually starts in June. The rainy season is also the season when malaria hits so we want our practicing matrones to be able to protect their pregnant patients. We distribute mosquito nets and fansidar (a medicine used to prevent and to treat malaria). 
Assalama and Aghali on mission to distribute mosquito nets and meds.
It has been a brutally hot year in the Tamesna region and the nomads have dispersed far and wide so we have not been able to distribute the nets and meds in that region. When the rains start, the nomads will head back to their home base area and we will be able to find them then. This is the challenge of working with nomads. We are covering an area the size of West Virginia and when the nomads get out of their home territory because of extreme drought it gets a lot bigger.
How can we help? I know how imperative
The mosquito nets and fansidar are!
Having slept under a net or in a tent each time I traveled to Niger one could hear the buzzz.
This medicine helped a friend of mine who contracted malaria in South America , this medicine helped Sidi a man that many of you supporters met when he came to Ojai.
These are simple but important remedies!
The Matrones are dedicated to the health
Of so many women, so many pregnant
Women, so many families of the vast nomadic
Population in the Sahara.
I miss the experience of volunteering
For the Nomad Foundation and hope to return when I can.
Hello to my friends in Niger 😊
Everyone in Niger misses you Linda. We are trying to go back in the fall.