The construction work of the Maison de Fati is progressing well. The centre will provide a place to host children and adults affected by the noma disease and going through pre and post-operative treatments.

The transects initiated in December 2008 and renewed in June and September 2009, were conducted in order to monitor the population of addax in Termit - Tin Toumma, using the established counting method. This allows data collection over a full annual cycle, during the cold, hot and rainy season.

3 new partnerships were approved by the Foundation's Board on January 22, 2010: with FUGAPE to finance a pilot farm in Cameroon; with GEDE Foundation to provide children affected by AIDS with access to education in Nigeria ; with Tuwapende Watoto to build a school to welcome both the children from the orphanage and the local community in Tanzania. In addition to this, our initial partnerships with PSP in Mali and TIM-SFV in Madagascar were renewed.

New training sessions were conducted in the village of Tidili, located at an altitude of 2,000 m. The same educators as last year performed 4 training sessions: 2 on early childhood education and 2 on management of documentation centres and library administration. A total of 8 educators and 13 teachers were trained.