By Katherine Kolios | Executive Director
As if a global pandemic wasn’t enough, Niger has experienced terrible flooding this year – the worst flooding in generations. Hundreds of thousands of Nigeriens were displaced and tens of thousands of people lost their homes, their fields, their herds. These extreme weather patterns are making a difficult climate even harder to survive.
Now, so many families are being forced to start over. RAIN is working to bring wells to two new partner communities without access to safe water. These wells will help them to rebuild. New wells will enable the villages to initiate two community gardens to keep families well fed and to earn income to build toward a more stable future. The wells will also provide clean water for greater hygiene and protection against the spread of Covid.
Having local, year-round access to safe water is the crux for building up a healthy and enduring community.
With your help, thousands of Nigeriens have accessed safer water and nutritious food. Thank you for all you’ve done. We hope you’ll continue to support this project to ensure that families across in two communities have the support they need to meet their basic needs – now and into the future.
Please consider sharing this opportunity with your friends and family - none of us can do it alone.
We look forward to updating you as the year progresses – we are already in planning sessions to identify the right plots of land and engage the communities. We're planning to start the drilling itself in early 2021!
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