Hi Friends
Thank you all for opening school for these children and giving them the opportunity to learn, which ever single child should have the right to do!
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Stories & Updates
Posts & reflections from our work in Nigeria
Water Survey Report
Read or download the water development report for the Garbagal, Bobi, and Kachia grazing reserves.
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Garbagal Reserve
Garbagal reserve in Jigawa is the poorest we've found, in grass, in water, in every other resource.
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Dutse, capital of Jigawa State
We made it safely to Dutse, capital of Jigawa State! Thanks for your prayers!
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The Problem:
Droughts, floods and land conflicts continue to adversely affect more people in Nigeria than any other type of disaster. Yet these events are human-caused or made worse by human practices.
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Through Holistic Management and its planned grazing methodology, pastoral droughts can be eliminated and the severity and impact of any meteorological droughts that do occur can be reduced.
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The Solution is EDUCATION
“My grandfather cheated my father,” Alhaji Musa told Sortor. “He gave him wives and cows, but wouldn’t send him to school. And my father cheated me. He bought wives for me and cattle, but never sent me to school. I will not cheat my children that way.”
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The Solution is HEALTHCARE
As their health began to improve so did the Fulani’s confidence grow in established, modern medicine, and the Fulani, rather than frequenting native doctors, began to choose the local teaching and specialist hospitals
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The Reserve Training
This is a 14-day training of key community leaders, farmers and herdsmen from each of the three grazing sites, followed by two follow-up visits, to include the following factors critical to the project’s success:
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