One year has passed already and thanks to your engagement we were very successfull! ENMIGRAW and first of all our Tuareg families would like to thank you warmly.
TANNEMERT HULLAN
The well of Gougaram was finished in March 2005. Two weeks later the Tuareg emptied the well and digged deeper for two more meters – now they have a permanent water level of 2,5m and Wayounfane told us that the well is working perfectly. Everybody came together, a goat was slaughtered, a party was celebrated and the community thanked Allah and the donators for the fact of having clean drinking water now for man and cattle. The next plan is to lay out a plantation watered by the well. So the community can produce enough vegetables and fruit for the Touareg families nearby and prevent them from migration.
At the same time the garden can generate income to provide the whole clan with what they need. Also the other gardens will profit from the well and we are confident that the first plants will be growing soon, Inch’Allah! Right now the Tuareg are fixing a fence to keep out the greedy goats.
Digging of the well in Gougaram
The next plan is to lay out a plantation watered by the well. So the community can produce enough vegetables and fruit for the Tuareg families nearby and prevent them from migration.
At the same time the garden can generate income to provide the whole clan with what they need. Also the other gardens will profit from the well and we are confident that the first plants will be growing soon, Inch’Allah! Right now the Tuareg are fixing a fence to keep out the greedy goats.
The bastmats project of the women is in good progress. They are very well organized by now and the microcredit already made some profit when selling the mats.
The women contacted ENMIGRAW for a donkeycart. The costs are around CHF 500.-. They would like to collect firewood and sell it on the mainroad. At the same time they would sell their handmade goatcheese Takammert, a popular speciality and also basic food. Even the daily water transports would be handled much easier with the cart. The women could share it for different activities.
Last year’s resources from donations were limited and we were not able to fill the milletstorehouse to an extent that we could handle the lack of food after the grasshoppers’ trouble properly. 500kg were not enough to feed everybody! The nomads far off were striked hard and in those camps we had to complain about death. We were forced to watch helplessly how the prices of millet exploded. In North Niger there was no corn to buy at all.
Meanwhile strong rain has fallen and the goats and sheep of the women find enough to eat. Some Wadis have even been floated and so a number of shelters were distroyed and some animals lost. Life is never easy!
Mouhamed and Anita