The Sahel

Africa’s Sahel region cuts across the entirety of Northern Africa. Within the Sahel, our strategic focus countries include Chad and Niger, home to 33 million unreached people1. More than 20 million people in rural Chad and Niger do not have access to clean water.

THE SAHEL (CHAD & NIGER) BY THE NUMBERS
43.93
million
combined population Chad & Niger
20
million
million rural people in Chad & Niger lack access to clean water within a 30-minute collection trip
33
million
million rural people in Chad & Niger lack access to adequate sanitation facilities
33
million
million unreached people in Chad & Niger from 107 people groups
The Sahel

The Crisis

Our program targets two highly water-stressed regions in rural Chad and Niger. The greatest challenges in the regions include:

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Fund a Project in

The Sahel

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.

OUR MISSION IN THE SAHEL

Serving the Unreached

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

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

Our WASH programs in Chad & Niger provide training in evangelism and support local pastors with evangelistic resources. The program also supports livelihood initiatives aimed at empowering local believers to be sustainable and able to undertake and lead evangelistic activities in their localities on their own initiative.

CLEAN & LIVING WATER IN THE SAHEL

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

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