A mission led by Alhassane Foungounou and our clinic director (and recent graduate as a midwife) was held at the Tamesna center for nomadic life in February 2024. Rabi trained six new matrones, supplied them with medical kits and certified them. We will try to return in November to see how all of the work […]
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the focal point of all our projects--bringing essential services to nomads with fixed facilities on their annual migration route.
HEALTH
49 traditional birth attendants trained2,449 Babies delivered
14,225 patients treated at clinic
WATER
38 wells
WORK
94 microcredit loans 17 women’s co-operatives
8 Adult education programs
920 Animals purchased
10,000 animals vaccinated
EDUCATION
6 schools built
18 schools supported
5,700 nomadic children served
48 in Tamesna boarding school
10 graduated to junior high
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From the Field
Rabi is now a midwife
By leslieclark
Rabi was our clinic director at Tamesna when she asked if we would help her get her certification as a midwife, a program of three years. During that time she had a second baby, and completed two missions a year for the Nomad Foundation to train new matrones and resupply the existing ones. She had […]
Training new trainers
By leslieclark
We continue to build the capacity of the local staff to expand our traditional birth attendant program whether we can go to Niger or not. We did not go in 2023 because we were saving our money to drill a new borehole at Tamesna, but a coup in July put everything on hold and we […]
A new medicinal garden in Iferouane
By leslieclark
We continue to try to create a system that depends less on our presence and our imports. To this end we financed a garden with solar power and tank in Iferouane. In addition to vegetables that Aghali, the garden’s owner will sell, he will produce medicinal plants to supply our matrones. Moringa has been a […]
Thanks to all the donors who saved my family from terrorists
By leslieclark
For over ten years under the direction of Charlene Pidgeon and Abdoulaye Diallo our representative in Mali we have been quietly working in war-torn Mali to support the women in a fistula clinic in Mopti and feeding refugees whose lives have been upended by the terrorist violence there. A generous donor has made it possible to […]
New matrone training completed at Ingall
By leslieclark
Our most recent training of 8 new traditional birth attendants was completed at Ingal March. Rabi far left is our local nurse who conducted the training and Sidi, center arranged logistics and purchased the their supplies and medical bags. On our last mission we brought a mamabirthie pelvic mannequin donated by Laerdal thanks to our […]