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Niger

Niger ranks 189 out of 193 countries in the UN’s Human Development Index1. It is located in Africa’s Sahel region and stands today as one of the most spiritually needy areas of the world. Within the Sahel, our strategic focus countries include Chad and Niger, home to 107 unreached people groups representing more than 33 million people2. More than 20 million people in rural Chad and Niger lack access to clean water.

NIGER BY THE NUMBERS
27.2
million
population of Niger
12.8
million
people in rural Niger lack access to clean water within a 30-minute collection trip3.
19.8
million
people in rural Niger lack access to adequate sanitation facilities.
27.6
million
people in Niger are unreached by the gospel4.
Niger

The Crisis

Our program targets the highly water-stressed region in rural Niger. The greatest challenges in the region include:
The daily burden of water collection
The daily burden of water collection: Existing water sources are widely scattered and, during the prolonged dry season, women and children spend 4-6 hours per day and travel many miles to collect water for their homes.
Finding water at depth
In most locations the groundwater table is too deep for traditional hand pumps.
Disease and poverty
Lack of clean drinking water leads to an increase in preventable diseases that can have serious health effects on children who lack access to medical care. A vicious cycle of disease, poverty and illiteracy has crippled development. Water shortage has led to conflict, children abused while traveling long distances in search of water, internal displacement, and the spread of communicable diseases5.

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Niger

Serve an entire community or school with clean and living water. Projects range in cost depending on the region, project type, and amount of people served.

Co-Fund a Project
$5,000
Your $5,000 donation will combine with others to fully fund a Community Tap Stand or a School WASH Project in Niger.
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Community Tap Stand
$25,000
As part of a larger community water system, your gift completes a single community tap stand connected to a central water storage tower. A solar-powered pump distributes water from the central tower to multiple tap stands across an entire village (including schools and health centers). (serves 500 people)
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School WASH Project
$25,000
Provide an entire school with improved access to drinking water through the installation of a community-scale slow sand filter that treats water, making it safe to drink. All students and teachers also receive training in the importance of hygiene and sanitation to encourage behavior change. (serves 100 - 200 students)
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OUR MISSION IN NIGER

Serving the Unreached

The Sahel region represents a large component of the western third of the 10/40 Window and stands as one of the most spiritually needy areas of the world6. In both Chad and Niger the Christian Church is in the extreme minority and believers are often persecuted for their faith in Jesus. Local churches are marginalized, lacking both connection and acceptance by the wider community.

Our local partners invite pastors and churches to participate in the provision of clean water, giving them the opportunity to access and build meaningful connections with unreached communities. We have seen how this changes attitudes towards the Christian community and creates an openness for relationships to be established.

The programs in Chad and Niger provide training in evangelism and support local pastors with evangelistic resources. This includes livelihood initiatives aimed at empowering local believers to undertake and lead sustainable evangelistic activities on their own initiative.

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CLEAN & LIVING WATER IN NIGER

Our Plan

With your help, more than 210,000 rural people will be served with access to clean and living water in our 2 target regions Chad and Niger by the end of 2028, completing the task which began in 2021 and providing everyone in the regions with access to clean water. You can make it possible to see:

520

communities gain access to clean drinking water through mechanized boreholes and piped water systems connected to community tap stands

110

tap stands constructed in schools and connected to completed systems

Local

communities trained to operate and maintain water points

60

local pastors and evangelists participated in WASH programs, effectively using safe water as the access point to improve relationships and share the gospel with unreached communities
SOURCES:
1 https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
2 https://washdata.org
3 https://washdata.org/data/household#!/table?geo0=country&geo1=TCD
4 https://www.joshuaproject.net/countries/NG
5 https://www.thesahelinitiative.org/
6 https://lausanne.org/about/blog/the-sahel-finishing-the-task
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Her Hands Have Carried The Burden – This is Amina’s Story
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