The Attadjamou group of women from Al Boutal in Chad

Fatimé Sosal, president of the Attadjamou group of Al Boutal women.

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By: Sayouba Traoré

2 min

The town of Ati, capital of the Batha-Ouest department, is 437 kilometers from N'Djamena the capital.

And the locality of Al Boutal is 14 kilometers from Ati.

In Al Boutal, 100 women benefited from financial and material support from the Regional Support Project for Pastoralism in the Sahel (PRAPS) in Chad, and from the supervision of the National Vocational Training Support Fund (FONAP), to carry out a fattening activity for small ruminants.

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As soon as you leave the city of Ati, it's sand as far as the eye can see and a constant wind.

Not the slightest blade of grass, a few thorny branches and no trace of water.

These are the realities that explain 

the alarming poverty indices in Chad.

The various studies indicate a poverty rate of 42.3% for the entire population, including 49.7% in rural areas.

It turns out that the majority of the inhabitants of Batha live solely on agriculture or animal husbandry.

They therefore remain very dependent on the climate and a severely degraded environment.

And among the poor, there are even poorer women.

Women from Al Boutal's Attadjamou group.

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In this difficult environment, the environment and social problems overwhelm women.

Even if the women are determined to get by, the first problem in this kind of case is the organization of the actresses.

How to form a group with all the up-to-date documents, when you are a rural woman confined in her village, you can imagine that this first step was not at all easy.

At the end of this obstacle course, today the women of the Attadjamou group have now reached a certain financial autonomy.

Surroundings of Al Boutal.

Arid environment and social problems overwhelm women.

© Sayouba Traoré / RFI

Guests

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Focal point of

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president of the Attadjamou group of women of Al Boutal.

Production: Sayouba Traoré

Director: Ewa Piedel

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