MULTITASKING: (third in the Mother’s Day Series) Like mothers across the world, Againakou must juggle caring for her young Agoubouley, and work at the same time. Read more…
Tag: stories of the Azawak
Food for Everyone
In this photo, a Fulani family has come to the Ebagueye cereal bank to purchase millet at an affordable cost. The cereal bank not only provides affordable grain, but it makes the grain available at a reasonable proximity to nearby sedentary and nomadic camps and villages. Read more…
Water for Health or Who Said Troughs Aren’t Meant To Be Used As A Pool?
In the first photo, a mother gives a bath to her children in the clean water from the Couloubade borehole. Why not recycle an animal trough into a bathtub? The children aren’t too happy. Baths are a new thing to get used to! Read more…
Gushing With Life
More water celebration!!! … here, girls from our Ebagueye community are playing in the pristine water gushing from their borehole, constructed in 2012. Like in our other borehole communities, they had never seen such abundant and clean water before. Read more…
May The Water Flow
Anahou and Mariama are retrieving water from the Tangarwashane faucet for their family. Their lives have changed dramatically. Read more…
WASH
Once we build a borehole in a community, we conduct WASH (water, hygiene, and sanitation) education programs, to teach children and adults alike about proper hygiene and sanitation. Read more…
Incident At The Well
Finally, in the distance, we saw movement. Lots of movement: cows, sheep, camels, donkeys and men… all united around… aha, a well! Read more…
Before and After: Water is hope!
The first photo depicts my friend Againakou giving her 10-month-old son, Agoubouley, a drink of marsh “juice”. Read more…