For Sale: One of a kind original Tuareg Giclee for sale.

Original painting for sale.

Buy Now!
This beautiful original painting of a young Tuareg girl has been donated to NomadHope by the artist, Leslie Clark.

“Taberert” Giclee on Canvas by Leslie Clark.

Includes a one-of a kind hand painted frame.

Dimensions: 18" x 24".
$700 OBO

WATER IS KEY, Photography Book by Gil Garcetti

We are offering these beautiful photography books to the first 20 donors, “Water is Key” by Gil Garcetti for donations of $100 or more.

We will send you an autographed copy for donations of $150,

Or, all of the above and "Brunch with Gil", for donations of $250 or more!


WATER IS KEY, Balcony Press 2007
The beauty and the power of the photographs resonate deeply with all who see the photographs and read the accompanying quotes and essays. Though this is Garcetti's fifth book, it was his first photographic project. It is a call to action to people in the industrialized world to become involved in helping bring safe water to the people of West Africa. All of Garcetti's profits from the sale of this book and limited edition photographs are going to non-government organizations working in West Africa on safe water projects.

"The renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, ... , called Garcetti's images'remarkable' ''. (Photos in IRON and FROZEN MUSIC) "He says Garcetti's work is full of sensitivity. 'He's not just a good photographer, says Shulman. His compositions spell out a sensitivity which embraces his subject in a personal way. [WATER IS KEY]. ' "
- Sara Terry, Christian Science Monitor, October 17, 2007

Email Keely@NomadHope.org  to purchase your book NOW!

Check out my "African Happenings in LA" BLOG

Keep posted on the many Africa related events and happenings in Los Angeles, via my BLOG here: http://africainla.blogspot.com/. I will create a link in the sidebar on this BLOG too.
Send me links to fun African events you find in LA and I'll post them here.
PS - Tinariwen is coming to LA on Feb. 20th at UCLA Live, don't miss it, they are fabulous! See info. at this BLOG site: http://africainla.blogspot.com/

Donate Airline Miles - Cashless Donations Help Too!

I was just given a wonderful suggestion, ask all NomadHope donors, volunteers, and fans to donate airline miles to the Foundation! This can be used for volunteers' travel to work at our project sites, which is one of the highest cost travel expenses we have.

The more I thought about this, the more excited I got about sending this message to all of you. Many of our engineering volunteers simply can't afford the airfare costs to get to our rural school sites in Mali, Africa. They need round trip airfare from the USA to Europe (11 hours in flight), and then to Bamako (5 hours), and finally another flight/airline to Timbuktu (2 hours). And then a 2-4 hour 4x4 bumpy car ride, and that's just getting there~

If everyone we know donates some airline miles, we can really help out the volunteers and make more progress each year. Now that is music to my ears! Even if we only have enough miles to help with one-way or to provide an upgrade, that is tremendous and also a volunteer recruiting perk we can offer. (flying for 18 hours, driving for 4, and then sleeping on the ground with no hot water... is not a picnic!)

So, anyone out there with miles in an airline account can do this. Here are the links below. Be sure to email Keely@nomadhope.org to get our air miles account #, so we can track it for you, and send you a tax receipt!

1. American - https://transfer.points.com/AAdvantage/init.do;jsessionid=4C2F9BDC4F2CFA27C366BE50FF4D2780?method=transfer&CAMPAIGNCODE=AAMarketingPageShareFeb10&c=AAMarketingPageShareFeb10
2. Delta - https://dn.delta.com/skymiles/purchasemiles/transfer/landing?region=us&lang=en
3. United - http://www.ualmiles.com/TransferMiles.jsp

Pass it on!
FYI - Each travelling volunteer needs, for example:
on America: 20-30K miles one-way to Europe, or 25K to upgrade one-way
on United: 25-50K miles one-way LA to NY, and 55 - 110K one-way to Europe
on Air France: 80K miles one-way to Bamako
or just enough to get to NYC would be great!