Herding for Sustainable Futures

Help us to share the power of information with eager girls and boys who are eager to bring skills home to help their communities. Our students share the intention of providing for their families and communities. What is so powerful about the rural and nomadic communities -- they work together to survive and progress.

     The RAIN solar library will give the opportunity to students that truly want to empower themselves; who want to succeed. RAIN needs your help to build this special space. Having a place that promotes opportunity is so rare in West Africa. Support for these remarkable people comes in many forms from RAIN, but all are rooted in learning. Join Rain for the Sahel and Sahara to help the simplest of dreams – healthy lives, food on the table, knowledge of and connection to the world – come true.

You can make the Agadez Learning Center (ALC) into an oasis of knowledge and stability in a country where 61% of people are illiterate. Our goal is to create a place that can house upwards of 50 students to continue their education past primary school. Education is extremely important to RAIN as we have mentors in dozens of communities and they have proven to increase retention of students upwards of 20%. Our immediate goals are 

• Construct separate girls bathroom
• Construct library and media center for computer lessons
• Construct 4 classrooms for after-school classes
• Construct additions to existing dorms to accommodate students
• Build French library collection and computer learning tools
• Furniture for the new buildings
• Replace older materials (beds, shelving, etc)

The continued support and growth of the learning center is vital as it allows more students the ability to get an education have support, and guidance. RAIN needs your help to build this special space. Having a place that promotes opportunity is so rare in West Africa. Support for these remarkable people comes in many forms from RAIN, but its best is education. Come join Rain for the Sahel and Sahara as we push students toward their dreams and ambitions.  

Donate now for the chance to help build a building that will impact so many and change so many lives. It truly is a chance to help create real differences in the many communities with so little available to them.