This past March, I visited our partner NGO in Nouakchott, Mauritania, just like I did last year. I once again was blown away by their warm welcome towards me and the wonderful time we had together. This time I lived in a compound, a cluster of one-room houses, with neither running water nor electricity.
The first night, we came [...]
Continue reading about Magda’s trip to Mauritania in March 2009
During his last trip to Mauritania this past December 2008, Peter traveled with two friends to the southern border with Senegal in search of land suitable for a Neem tree nursery and an Neem tree orchard. In the picture below you see him and his friends in a meeting with village elders, where they presented and [...]
Continue reading about Peter’s trip to Mauritania in December 2008
If you’ve been around JustNeem for any amount of time, you’ve probably gathered that we like Neem trees. Yes! We think they’re pretty cool.
Our friends in Mauritania have been catching that Neem fever as well. We just got some pictures from our partner non-profit group on the ground in the capital of this Saharan [...]
Beginning of April, I went on a week-long trip to Nouakchott, Mauritania.
I lived with a Doulos family in one of the poor areas surrounding the capital during that time, and was deeply touched by the impressions of what I saw…
In mid-December, 2007, Peter Radtke and Bill Criswell flew to Mauritania to finalize a collaboration agreement with an NGO in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania. We had begun to talk about working together during our last visit in the spring of 2007. This organization works directly with the poor in areas where living quarters [...]
About six years ago, the Mauritanian government invited our friends Bill Criswell, founder of Impact Team International based in Seattle, and Bill Stoffregen, founder of Homewood Nursery in Raleigh, NC, to Mauritania, West Africa. Considered to be one of the most disadvantaged countries of the sub-Sahara, the Mauritanian government was looking to find new economic [...]
