For anyone with a yen to help out financially strapped Algerian nomads, now's your chance.
Alissa Descotes-Toyosaki, a Japanese-French writer and interpreter living in Paris, is offering a "camel owner plan," through which purchasers lend their beasts to Tuareg nomad camel handlers in southern Algeria.
She has already found several French and Japanese buyers, who are allowed to name their animals. Tags dangling from the necks of the Japanese-owned camels identify them as Tanaka, POP and Shunichi.