Niger
Support Muntada Aid's efforts in Niger: provide clean water, food, and medical care to vulnerable communities. Donate to make a difference!
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Why Niger?
Even before the ongoing political crisis, Niger remained one of the poorest countries in the world. It is a landlocked country in the Sahel region with a population of over 21 million people.
All of these factors are worsening with the growing insecurity in the region, mismanagement of natural resources, environmental degradation, rapid growth in the population, inherent gender inequalities and climate change.
Muntada Aid Impact In Niger
Niger has remained the country of focus for Muntada Aid for the past three years.
We are running several programmes in the country, including providing clean water, food, medical, community buildings and livelihood programmes to foster resilience among various sections of the population.
We work to help vulnerable, elderly people, children, young girls and women in some of the most deprived communities in the country.
Clean Drinking Water
Since 2021, we have built 69 water stations providing access to clean drinking water to over 90,000 people daily.
Livelihoods Programme
We are also supporting 60 farmers and 192 Women Through Livelihoods and Training Programmes.
Cataracts Surgeries
Since 2021, Muntada Aid has performed 3250 cataracts and lens replacement surgeries.
Community Centre
Since 2021, We Have Also Constructed 5 Community Centres in the Country, Serving Close to 6000 people daily.
Food
Since 2021, We have provided almost a million meals to vulnerable communities.
Provide Access To Clean Water
Niger is the largest country in West Africa, among the worst access to clean water. It is also one of the poorest countries in the world.
Only 56% of the country's population has access to drinking water.
Water-related diseases and poor hygiene are among the leading causes of death among children under five.
What Is Muntada Aid Doing?
Muntada Aid is working in Niger, providing sustainable and safer access to clean drinking water in some of the most remote and troubled regions in the country.
Since 2021, we have built 69 water stations providing access to clean drinking water to over 90,000 people daily.
How You Can Support
We are building medium and large solar-powered water stations, with a capacity of serving fresh, clean for drinking, domestic and agricultural purposes for up to 6000 daily.
Direct Debit is one of the best ways you can support our programme.
Donating just £5 monthly will help us build more sustainable water projects in Niger.
Give The Gift Of Sight
An estimated 5 million people go blind from cataracts annually, with blindness affecting over 4% of the population in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The region has 21.4 million visually impaired individuals, including 4.8 million who are blind.
Despite affordable treatments like cataract removal and eyeglasses, two-thirds of vision impairments in Sub-Saharan Africa could be prevented or treated. The region has only three ophthalmologists per million people.
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a severe shortage of qualified optometry professionals, especially in rural areas, with very low cataract surgical rates. Projected growth in eye health personnel and cataract surgeries won't meet rising needs. Without significant investment and action, avoidable vision impairment and blindness will continue to affect many.
What Is Muntada Aid Doing?
With your support, we are launching a dedicated effort to fight cataracts in Sub-Saharan Africa. This initiative aims to address the widespread issue of cataract-related blindness in the region by increasing access to treatment, raising awareness, and advocating for more resources.
Since 2021, Muntada Aid has successfully performed 3,250 cataract and lens replacement surgeries in Niger, helping to restore sight and improve the lives of thousands in the region.
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How You Can Support
In 2023, Muntada Aid plans to carry out at least 2000 cataract surgeries in Niger. Setting up a Direct Debit is one of the best ways you can support our programme.
By donating just £5 monthly will help us reach more people suffering from cataract blindness. Alternatively, by donating just £75, you can fund a life-transforming cataract operation in Niger.
Muntada Aid now provides warm, freshly cooked dinners to patients and their families, many of whom travel from remote villages with no access to food or shelter.
Malnutrition In Niger
Malnutrition is a major threat to children’s health and development in Niger. According to 2018 data, 15.0 per cent of children are acutely malnourished in Niger (unchanged since 2006). As Niger’s population continues to grow, the burden of malnutrition will persist unless significant efforts are put into preventing malnutrition that addresses all the multisectoral causes. The number of stunted children is expected to increase by 44 per cent by 2025 owing to population growth.
The country has the world’s eleventh highest rate of mortality among children under the age of 5, a population that barely has access to proper sanitation, low school attendance and harmful practices like early marriage. Niger is a youthful and predominantly rural country. Its population of 21.5 million is 50 per cent female, 80 per cent rural, and 58.2 per cent below the age of 18. With close to half of Nigeriens living in poverty, the prospects of many children are dim, and they risk becoming the next impoverished generation. About 48 per cent of children live under the monetary poverty line, and 75 per cent of young children under the age of 5 are deprived of three or more essential social services.
Assessments have shown that most students (93 per cent) in primary grades 2 and 5 need help to read or do mathematics properly. Adult literacy is very low – 14 per cent for women and 42 per cent for men. Girls are less likely to go to school than boys, and children from the poorest homes are 1.6 times more likely to never attend school than children from the wealthiest households.
What Is Muntada Aid Doing?
We are supporting a school meals programme for underprivileged children on the outskirts of Niamey, Niger. There are over 250 children at this school, most of whom come from impoverished families.
These children often come to school without any breakfast and no guarantee of food for the day.
We are also building a modern kitchen, dining area, and washroom facilities, besides providing daily nutritious meals at the school premises.
Our food programme will provide cooked meals on the premises. The school dinner will consist of rice, lentils, vegetables and meat (chicken and goat meat will be served twice a week).
How You Can Support
£6 Will Provide Nutritious Meals to a Child for a Week in Niger. The programme will also have a long-term impact on the education of these children. According to a research paper by the United Nations, "on empty stomachs, children become easily distracted and have problems concentrating on schoolwork.
hey become better students when their bodies are well-nourished and healthy. The incentive of getting a meal also reduces absenteeism. Most significantly, performance improves, and drop-out rates decrease.
Setting up a Direct Debit is one of the best ways you can support our programme. Donating just £6 monthly will help us find nutritious food for children in Niger.
Livelihoods Programme
In West Africa, goat farming is improving the lives of family farmers, stimulating local economies, and making better nutrition more accessible. These indigenous livestock species are well-suited for West Africa, with a wealth of genetic diversity that makes them more adaptable to a changing climate.
TIn Niger, goats are amazing animals to help farmers fight and escape cycles of poverty, build rural economy, build resilience to climate change and empower women in rural communities.
What Is Muntada Aid Doing?
£6 Will Provide Nutritious Meals to a Child for a Week in Niger. Goats can help build more secure futures for whole communities. As part of our Livelihoods project, Muntada Aid offers a goat scheme where farmers in rural Niger have a set of 5 goats (1 male, one female and three kid goats) among vulnerable farmers, particularly women farmers, to help them additional sources of income.
Setting up a Direct Debit is one of the best ways you can support our programme. Donating just £6 monthly will help us build sustainable agricultural communities in Niger.
As the political situation in West Africa continues to boil, people in Niger need our help. Please support one of our programmes in Niger and help us build a sustainable community in the country.
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