With the WATA, drinkable water the nomadic population of Tamaya

The Belgian Technical Cooperation in Niger will be funding NGO Tagaste so that the organization can realize its WATA project. The project consists in putting in place a water disinfection system in the rural locality of Tamaya.

The project was initiated in collaboration with Antenna Technologies, a franco swiss organization, that invented and distributes the system.

The WATA is a device that produces active chloride using only salted water, thanks to the electrolyse phenomenon. It is very easy to use, resistant and durable. Active chloride is a component that destroys or disables pathogene micro-organisms.

In 1 hour, the WATA can produce 1 liter of active chloride.

With 1 liter of active chloride, after dilution, one can obtain 4 000 liters of drinkable water.

The project will make drinkable water affordable for everyone, because the liter of chloride will be sold at 100 FCFA (about 20 cents).

The community radio of Tamaya, already equipped with solar panels, has been chosen to produce and commercialise the active chloride.

The project will start in May 2008, just before the rainy season and the transhumance, so that the populations will have an affordable solution to make drinkable water (in that season people usually drink water from the ponds formed by the rains).

To learn more about the project, write us at ongtagaste@yahoo.fr or visit Antenna Technologies website http://www.antenna.ch/

Artists from Niger support NGO Tagaste

Since June 2006, Minate, a tuareg jeweler from Tchinta-Baraden who travels very often to Europe to sell his pieces, has been supporting NGO Tagaste projects by donating 1% of his sales to the organization.

Minate's last sale in France was a success partly because he was helped by our partner Timidouwa.

Minate is planning to go back to France in October. He will then organize another exhibition of his jewelry during a benefit concert given by Koudede.

Koudede and his band will be on tour in Europe during that period.

To learn more about Koudede's tour dates, visit http://www.koudede.com/

To watch Koudede's video clips, visit http://cameranomade-fr.blogspot.com/

To learn more about Koudede's benefit concert and Minate's jewelry sale, visit Timidouwa's website http://assotimidouwa.blogspot.com/

The school of Fak and the club "Humani-Terre"

Since the beginning of scholl year 2006, the little primary school of Fak is supported by a solidarity project from the grade school Henry Matisse, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France.

The goal of this project is to have exchanges between the students of Issy-Les-Moulineaux and the students of Fak.

The French students have created a club, called club "Humani-Terre" (a play on words on "humanitarian club"), in which the students have assisted to chats about Niger given by members of Timidouwa,our partner association. They have also made several arts and crafts activities, producing items that will be sold to collect funds for the school of Fak.

The open day at the Henry Matisse grade school, on june 23, was the culmination of the club's activities. The students had put together an exhibition about Niger, and they exhibited and sold their artifacts to their parents and teachers: lamps, pearl jewelry, plants...

At the end of the day, the members of the club "Humani-Terre" had collected more than 600 euros that will be used to ensure the school of Fak will open its doors for the 2007 school year.

In order to make this project durable and to establish a real exchange between Fak and Issy-Les-Moulineaux, NGO Tagaste will implement school activities: among other things, the students of Fak will take part in a photography workshop and put together a photo album about their daily lives that will be sent to the french students.

Mathilde and Sarah, from Timidouwa, present the students realizations.