Imalolé

On a Nomad Adventures humanitarian tour in March, 2006, Jill Townsend-Sorel visited the community at Imalolé where we had started a cereal bank. She saw the women working to build an adobe building to house the grain. They were in the process of shoveling the clay, making bricks, stacking and mortaring them. The house was going up before our eyes. The children were hauling the water for it.

We purchased them a cart to help with their labor. Seeing how hard this community's women were working Jill asked them what she could do--what they needed for the future. The first thing they asked for was mouse poison to try to keep the mice from eating their precious stored grain. Gaining confidence--something that comes naturally for these women who are known throughout their land for the songs they compose and sing to encourage their people to protect and cherish their traditions, and to stand up for their rights to protect their own territory--they said they needed a school and new well. They had a school building which was built by the government and never staffed. It needed repair. They needed supplies, an teacher, school lunches for the children.

Jill with the chief Aghali in front of the school.

Jill came home and got to work. First she raised enough to repair the roof. In the fall of 2008, the children started school for the first time. They had desks, a blackboard, a teacher, school lunches, and supplies. But to continue school next year we need your help and there is much more we can do.

WHAT THEY NEED

Please help these kids go to school.

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