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The Need

WE WORK IN ONE COUNTRY

NIGER

WEST AFRICA

One of the poorest countries in the world

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1 IN 7
children dies

before the age of five

61%
of rural villagers

lack safe water

96%
have no access to sanitation

(not even a simple latrine)

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Women and girls suffer most, walking 4-6 miles a day to find water.

The water they find is often contaminated.

Because they have to walk for water, girls don’t go to school.
The average girl in Niger receives just four years of education.

The consequences of generations of uneducated women are tragic:

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85% of Nigerien women cannot read or write.

76% of girls in Niger are married by age 18.

That’s the world’s highest rate of child marriage.

The average woman will have seven children.

That’s the highest fertility rate in the world.

A woman in Niger dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth every two hours.

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