We started assisting the Traditional Healers in Timbuktu 3 years ago by sending sphygmomanometers and stethoscopes. We had been introduced to this group through our friend the photographer and healer Joseph Hunwick who regularly goes there to photograph the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu. His father John Hunwick is a renowned expert who has been translating these manuscripts for the last 40 years.

In 2007 we were finally able to go to Timbuktu ourselves, partly spurred on by the nationwide search for a suitable English twin town where our hometown Glastonbury had been shortlisted.

We met Dr Ali Attiram Maiga, who is the Head of the Association of Traditional Healers and witnessed his skill and the important work he is doing, helping the poorest of the community with herbs, which clearly work.

We are now building a traditional healing centre, which is run by Dr Ali Attiram Maiga. It will have a pharmacy, a treatment room, where severe patients can also spend the night and a classroom, where he can pass on this traditional skill.

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Building a traditional healing centre

	Dr Ali Attiram Maiga