Bring Lights, Books and Computers to Niger

            At Rain for the Sahel and Sahara 142 women who have never attended school are providing guidance and advocacy to 650 girls and at-risk boys to help them stay in school and succeed there. In a region where fewer than 15% of the children attend school, and those who do attend for an average of only 3 – 4 year, we are seeing the first girls ever graduating from our partner primary schools.

But junior high and high schools are only located in towns too far from our students’ rural homes.

            Our Agadez Learning Center creates a place for young girls and boys to live in a safe and structured environment where they receive scholarships, tutoring and mentoring. Our students are working toward becoming nurses, teachers, engineers, agriculture specialists and more. But at the public school they attend there are 80 kids in a class, no computers and electricity comes and goes.

             A solar system has been donated to provide power. Help us build a computer lab and library. With computers come  valuable skills and, with internet, the ability to research, study and learn in a completely new way. Other countries, peoples and animals will part of their world. Many have never seen a river, pond or ocean.

            “I am very proud to be at the center because there is tutoring, food, water, a cook and guards. We also have beds and mattresses and school supplies that we would not have on our own. There are also good rules at the center. They have built nice rooms for us. There are always good meals for us.” – Ghissa

Help Rain for the Sahel and Sahara bring a world of curiosity, knowledge and skill to rural and nomadic girls at risk boys of the Sahara. Donate today to help create a solar computer lab and library to fuel dreams of a better future.