Niger

Our work

What is Muntada Aid doing 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.

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.

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 the capacity to serve fresh, clean water for drinking, domestic and agricultural purposes for up to 6,000 people daily. Setting up a 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.

What is Muntada Aid Doing?

With your support, we are declaring a fight against cataracts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Since 2021, Muntada Aid has performed 3,250 cataract and lens replacement surgeries in Niger.

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.

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.

They 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 fund nutritious food for children in Niger.

What is Muntada Aid Doing?

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 give 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.