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 "The Story of Fati Gambo" Tamazalak Women's Sewing and Knitting Cooperative

"Illa Ada and the 4 Wheelchairs"

MALI
 Tinait Association of Timbuktu

ETHIOPIA
Ethiopian Children's Medical Project

The Story of Algo Goito

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Click Here to Donate   These are places and people where the world's major humanitarian organizations respond only in times of national catastrophes, if at all.

   These are populations that are often ignored by their own governments.

   If we don't help, who will?
Choose the project or projects you'd like to help us with!
 
Medical Projects
Sending a tribal person to a hospital at a distance $100
1 month’s supply of malaria medicines and antibiotics for a small village $200
1 three-wheeled wheelchair for a polio victim $250
Cleft lip and palate corrective surgeries for tribal children $1500
Help us fulfill our TurtleWill Mobile Bush Clinics dream of sending medical teams monthly into remote areas of Niger, Mali and Ethiopia, staffed by local doctors and nurses. The simplest medical care can save lives.
12-day Bush Clinic including medical staff, vehicle rental and medicines, treating 2000-2500 patients $16,000
 
School Projects, Per Year
School supplies, books and medicines for 50 students $500
Blankets and uniforms for 50 boarding students $750
3 daily meals for a bush school with 50 students ($95/student) $4750
Continuing education, 9-12th grade in Niger, Mali or Ethiopia for one student $1000-2000
Dormitory Construction for boys or girls in Niger or Mali $3000-6500
 
Animal Health Programs for the Nomad
Populations of Niger and Mali
1 goat: $45; 1 sheep: $55; 1 donkey: $75; 1 cow: $300
 
Community Projects
1 Food Cooperative, Handicrafts Cooperative or Sewing Cooperative in Mali or Niger $1500
1 well in Niger or Mali for bush communities $5-12,000
 
Join Us As a Volunteer

   Come along on one of our two week programs as a Health Care Professional or as a Staff Assistant (for which no medical training is required). Either way, you will be a great help!!!! And you will have a wonderful time getting to know our dear tribal friends.

Call us for more information and costs: (888) 299-1439.
Or see our link: Volunteer-Funded Medical Programs
 
When is a book more than a book!

   Buy a book and make a difference! Profits from the purchase of the new book "To Life in the Small Corners" go to support the work of TurtleWill. The book by long time TurtleWill supporter and traveler Carol A. Scribner is a journey of the heart to ten exotic small corners of the planet told through her photography and poetic prose. To learn more about the book and order a copy click here http://butterflyproductions.info Some times a book is not just a book!
 
TURTLEWILL

  To help, please send us your checks made out to TurtleWill or donate online.

  TurtleWill is now able to accept Marketable Securities as donations.

  TurtleWill is a 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization. Your contributions are tax-exempt and we will gratefully send you an acknowledgement.

   Working together we can make a difference.

 
4 WAYS TURTLEWILL RESPONDS TO NEEDS !
1. This Tuareg father put his son on his camel and rode for 20 miles to get him urgently needed medicines at our Mobile Clinic in Mali.
In this photo he is attaching the bag of medicines to the camel's saddle while his little son waits to mount.
3. Delegations of women like this regularly wait to see Irma whenever she is in Niger. Word spreads quickly of her arrival. These Tuareg ladies at Terzezait have come to request food and sewing cooperatives.
2. Irma Turtle with Tuareg matriarch Hawa at Ibikit Well. For Hawa’s group the nearest well was 10 miles away. Despite repeated requests t o the government, nothing was done.

Hawa explained her problem directly to Irma in November, 2005. TurtleWill completed Hawa’s well at Ibikit in 2006, providing clean water to over 300 nomads in the region.
4. This Mursi mother walked at least 10 miles to bring her child to our Mobile Clinic in southern Ethiopia, where they are seen by Dr. Ethan. Nearest medical help is 50 miles away.
TurtleWill Inc. Box 1147, Carefree, AZ 85377 
Toll-Free: (888) 299-1439 Phone: (480) 488-3688 Fax: (480) 488-3406 
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E-Mail: IrmaTurtle@turtlewill.org