MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Timia_niger_well_boy.jpg (190x190) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Timia niger well boy.jpg en Children in the oasis village of Timia Niger at the southern edge of the Sahara desert fill their containers every morning The mountain village gets enough water to grow fruit year round Brothers Aruba and Alison say their grandfather's fruit grove was the first in Timia They sell oranges and mangoes to tourists for 20 cents each They also sell dates raisins and grapefruits Theirs is the only mechanical water well in the village During the hottest months the water level goes down but they say they still manage to water the garden Even during the country's droughts in the early 1970s and in 2005 the garden and family survived http //www voanews com/english/images/sahara-1 jpg http //www voanews com/english/archive/2008-06/2008-06-05-voa20 cfm CFID 110969870 CFTOKEN 66818726 jsessionid de30b85beb679b79811e66546c555e2d71a6 Phuong Tran Voice of America 2008-06 Water wells in Niger Boys of Niger Timia Orange containers PD-USGov | ||||
