Road Trip Niger Sunday, February 5, 2:00pm, at the Ojai Valley Community Church, 907 El Centro St., Ojai, California. Born to Play Productions presents a film about the adventures of the filmmakers in a country as far from home as imaginable, to discover the nomadic tribes of Niger, the vast, unforgiving and breathtaking Sahara desert, and the work of the Nomad Foundation. Film, music, appetizers, no host bar & silent auction to benefit...
Press Release Char Harouna September 16, 2016 Remember Niger Coalition (RNC), a U.S. non-profit with the mission “to unify people and mobilize resources in order to expand quality educational opportunities in Niger” will host several “Rally for Niger” events around the United States from September 24th through October 9th, 2016. Each Rally event supports a specific RNC project location. Kara VanderKamp, the Director and Founder of...
Niger's Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak won his country's second Olympic medal on Saturday as he clinched silver in the men's over-80 kilogram taekwondo competition, boosting the number of medals won by African fighters at Rio to five in a sport typically dominated by Asian countries. Read more: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10W03S "I want to win for Africa," said Abdoulrazak, whose medal is only the second for Niger after a 1972 boxing...
Académie Bilingue Cornerstone is looking to raise money to expand its schools in Niger, particularly in villages where there are no schools. From the founder, Amina P. Alio, PhD: It is said that a good education is the foundation for a positive future for all children. Unfortunately, for many children in Niger this is not a reality. Niger was designated the poorest country in 2015, with over 90% of the population lives below the poverty...
Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger), World Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, 2016), Member States and Stakeholders Announcements The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, in Istanbul on 23-24 May 2016, is a global call to action by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Summit has three main goals: 1. To re-inspire and reinvigorate a commitment to humanity and to the universality of humanitarian principles. 2. To initiate a set of concrete...
From March 11 – 18, 2016 the American Film Institute will be hosting the 12th annual New African Film Festival This year, twenty films from fifteen different countries will be shown, including a very special screening from Niger. Descriptions of these films can be found on the AFI website, but all are meant to celebrate the unique cultures of Africa. Featured this year is the Nigerien RAIN THE COLOR BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT, a musical...
Friday, February 19 at 6:30 PM at the NYC Seminar and Conference Center, 71 West 23rd Street (6th Ave & 23rd Street) Economic Prosperity, Human Rights, and the Role of Free and Fair Elections – Case Studies Haiti and Niger A country’s economic development depends on its institutions: its system of government, property rights, land tenure, civil service, and justice. The Inter-Parliamentary Union notes that "In any State the authority...
Wells4Wellness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing safe, sanitary water wells to the people of Niger, Africa, is holding a spring walk event fundraiser. The Moline-based organization is hoping to raise enough funds to add to the drilling of the next group of 6 wells. The fundraiser kickoff event is scheduled for Sunday, March 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Milltown Coffee, 3800 River Drive, Moline. Guests will sample American and Niger...
The Friends of Niger board would like to send out the following message from Glen Blumhorst, the president of our National Peace Corps Association, He talks about being deeply disturbed by the recent chorus of negative and aggressive speech targeting Muslims and refugees in our countries. He urges us to reach out, in large ways and small, to Muslims, refugees and other minorities in our communities. Now is the time for us to rededicate ourselves...
A small company led by Jehiel Oliver in Anacostia, D. C., is bringing small, versatile "Smart Tractors" to Nigera and Niger He devised a business in which farmers send a text to Hello Tractor’s U.S.-based dispatchers, who locate the nearest GPS-embedded Smart Tractor and ping the service provider. The tractors typically arrive within three days. Read about how this new tractor and business model are bringing increased efficiency to the...