Women's Community Gardens in Niger

Gardens for Sustainable Development

Imagine you are barely able to make it through the year.  You cannot afford to feed your children dinner.  You have a limited amount of income and there is a lack of opportunity in your community. The climate is unpredictable and during the harshest months, you could lose your entire livelihood. Sounds pretty dire, right? In communities that largely have been abandoned to their own devices by international aid organizations and by their own government. There is one nonprofit that continues to come back. But how can one organization have an impact when there is so much to be done?

RAIN has implemented community garden programs in several communities that have seen drastic improvements to livelihoods. In last year’s garden in (Village) the community produced 5 times as much produce and 3 times more profit than last year’s crop.  With your support, we hope to implement the success that this community has reaped and given this knowledge to our other partner communities. 

“You show up with your theories and you think you’re there to teach but you learn every time [you go into a community]. The theories need to be adjusted to the community. The people know what works where they live.” – Abdousalam Kaneye, Agriculture Consultant

RAIN currently has 3 community gardens in operation in Nassile, Taganatasou, Tirboye. With your help one of our goals for this coming year is to locate new villages to partner with that could benefit from our garden program. The villages that do not have access to clean water are especially susceptible to disease and malnutrition. By providing this service, like installing new wells, or community gardens hundreds of families are impacted.