One of the locals coming to market in Goure
Back in Maradi. This was on the way out to one of the villages where we work. It's rainy season, and we got quite abit of rain in one week, (hence the flooded road). Now it's back to dry again, but we're praying for more rain in September before the end of the season.
Me, Jaho, and Amina - before the rain hit! Jaho is one of the project staff for the agriculture project (Sowing Seeds of Change in the Sahel), he does alot of teaching out in villages + on the radio. Amina is a Peace Corps volunteer who lives in Dogon Baushe - one of the village we work with
Adamu and his grafts that took really well. The tree in Ziziphus mauritania, and the project has provided a new improved variety with much bigger fruit, to graft onto the native Ziziphus. The stumps they graft onto are fairly big so it takes off well and grows fast before the end of the rains.
A typical village in the Niger, (in the outlying countryside near Maradi)
Meeting up with a group of Fulani women who are keen on planting their own trees - this group have been alot more motivated than some of the other villages. Sally Cunningham (next to me) was seeing how many trees each of them had planted from the nursery.
One of the ladies in the group + her baby girl, Jamila (pronounced "Zhameela), who was fascinated with these white ladies who came to visit.
Weeding a metre out from the acacia seedling (these are Aussie acacias which they can sustainably harvest wood off, plus the seed which they make into a high protein flour, to use with the usual millet flour)
One of the locals coming to market in Goure
Back in Maradi. This was on the way out to one of the villages where we work. It's rainy season, and we got quite abit of rain in one week, (hence the flooded road). Now it's back to dry again, but we're praying for more rain in September before the end of the season.
Me, Jaho, and Amina - before the rain hit! Jaho is one of the project staff for the agriculture project (Sowing Seeds of Change in the Sahel), he does alot of teaching out in villages + on the radio. Amina is a Peace Corps volunteer who lives in Dogon Baushe - one of the village we work with
Adamu and his grafts that took really well. The tree in Ziziphus mauritania, and the project has provided a new improved variety with much bigger fruit, to graft onto the native Ziziphus. The stumps they graft onto are fairly big so it takes off well and grows fast before the end of the rains.
A typical village in the Niger, (in the outlying countryside near Maradi)
Meeting up with a group of Fulani women who are keen on planting their own trees - this group have been alot more motivated than some of the other villages. Sally Cunningham (next to me) was seeing how many trees each of them had planted from the nursery.
One of the ladies in the group + her baby girl, Jamila (pronounced "Zhameela), who was fascinated with these white ladies who came to visit.
Weeding a metre out from the acacia seedling (these are Aussie acacias which they can sustainably harvest wood off, plus the seed which they make into a high protein flour, to use with the usual millet flour)
