“Alheri gadon barci ne.” Hausa proverb A kindness is never wasted. Dear Friends of Niger Members, Isn’t it true that during your time in Niger you were the recipient of countless alheri? Certainly, we would stand up and attest that Nigeriens are some of the kindest people we have ever met! You and I represent a tiny fraction of the population that knows anything at all about Niger. From having lived and worked there, we have a...
We are all concerned about the growing food crisis in Niger, and MercyCorps is ramping up their efforts not only to raise awareness of this dire situation, but to provide direct assistance that is greatly needed in the Sahel. Some featured articles include: Cassandra Nelson's latest blog entry describes the impact the hunger crisis is having on children. Full URL: http://www.mercycorps.org/cassandranelson/blog/26626 In this video Nelson...
The April 2010 Issue of the Camel Express Showcased the Hampaté Bâ Middle School Competition to Win GlobalGiving's Open Challenge. Now It's Up to Us! Les Amis de Hampaté Bâ, the non profit supporting the Amadou Hampaté Bâ school in Niamey, has been selected to participate in the Global Giving Challenge for September 2010. During the month of September, the association needs to prove that it can raise funds, and if it succeeds, it will...
This year, as many as 7.8 million people - more than half of Niger's total population - face the grim prospect of months without sufficient food. Sporadic rains during the last growing season have had a devastating effect on harvests and food supplies, leaving households with little to save for the long "hungry season" between harvests. There are already widespread reports of families - particularly women and children - skipping meals and having...
Mercy Corps is giving special attention to Niger's ongoing cycle of hunger in their fundraising efforts, calling it one of the world's "Silent Disasters". From their web site, http://www.mercycorps.org : Long months of hunger between meager harvests hold Niger's families in a brutal grip. Mercy Corps is helping them break free. Successive poor harvests put more than 3.5 million Nigeriens - about 20 percent of that country's entire population...
Virginia Emmons is the co-founder and director of Educate Tomorrow, an international non-profit organization seeking to provide equitable access to education for all people Virginia is also a Niger RPCV, and is helping to organize fundraisers in San Francisco and Washington DC whose main goal is to raise money for a boarding house in Kirtachi, Niger. When the Peace Corps left the Kirtachi region, the Peace Corps and the Nigerien government...
At the March 12, 2006 meeting of the Board of Directors of Friends of Niger, the board voted to allocate the sum of $500 to a newly formed NGO, Tin-Hinan. In the past year FON members have contributed over $1000 earmarked for micro-credit projects. RPCV Sue Rosenfeld will present the check to this organization on behalf of FON when she returns to Niger in late April. Tin-Hinan is a non-profit registered with the government of Niger. The founder...