My name is Awad Abdelgadir. I run a small business called Nile Valley Herbs, Inc. We sell our hibiscus and hibiscus mint tea to individual healthy consumers, restaurants, coffeehouses, and health food stores. A part of the proceeds from our sales goes toward implementing projects in my village and surrounding area. 

Some of our projects have been: the provision of a clean water supply and distribution system; thanks to you my entire village now has clean running water assistance to the villagers in the building of a school the construction of a flood control protection wall for the village the installation of solar panels on the community center the test of a wind pump for irrigation sending school supplies donated by school children in Austin, TX We are now raising funds for a health clinic to serve several villages in the area. For more information, please contact the Mother Maryam Foundation.