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)
4 comments:
hello debbie , i am from Niger but reside in New york city
I would like to suggest my website www.niger1.com
my email is niger1.com@gmail.com
Hey Debbie!! I've been thinking and praying for you, I hope you are doing great! The pictures are great, you're looking pretty awesome in the local garb. I will write more to you soon :)
much love, Gin.
Hello Debs!! Wow so good to hear from you and hear what you are up to! It'll be neat for you and Glenda to hang out, i know she is excited that you will be there.
Hey Debbie, I like your Payne ensemble. Peace Corps chicks were that stuff all the time and I had a shirt and bubu made out of it. Pretty wicked. Concerning your prayer requests, Im going to pray that you dont get the malari that makes you insane nor those parasites that swim up your crotch.
So nice of you to join us on the dark continent,
Ben Doerr
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