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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Dogo Takes action for the environment: Children on the front line in Niger

In Dogo, Niger, environmental issues are sparking action. World Vision Niger is leading efforts, with children central to change.

Growing Sahelian apples helped Abdoulsalam stay close to his family

Growing Sahelian apples helped Abdoulsalam stay close to his family

As a solution to both the variability of harvests in the dry Sahel and a way to earn money, many Nigerien men often seek alternate and seasonal sources of...

Djamila - Niger

Djamila is out of danger now

Djamila, a 13-year-old grade five student from Iskita village in Maradi Region, is among beneficiaries of World Vision's Niger Integrated Resilience...

There is light at the end of the tunnel for Ramanatou

There is light at the end of the tunnel for Ramanatou

Roumanatou is a refugee from Sokoto state in Nigeria, who has lived in the Garin Kaka refugee settlement for the past year. She has been receiving...

Ibrahim Moussa family picture

A family picture with a different story

The escalating violence by armed groups has led to a new humanitarian emergency in Niger's border regions. According to the United Nations High...

the chief of the village of Gueskerou in front of the water tank

Boulama's family no longer has to drink water from the floods

In early October 2019, Komadougou river in Diffa region (Niger) broke its banks, forcing over 23,000 people to flee their villages. 50-year-old Chief...

The plight of families forced to flee incessant attacks in Kwakara

The plight of families forced to flee incessant attacks in Kwakara

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), last month alone, Maradi region received 23,000 refugees coming from Nigeria...

Rabilatou's story - Niger

Trying to grow up with the scars

Due to conflict and displacement of refugee families fleeing insecurity in Nigeria, several families and children are facing the heavy loss of separation...

Impact of our WFP-funded Niger Integrated Resilience Project II

In Niger, subsistence agriculture is the main activity of the population – especially in rural areas. Unfortunately, many areas are subjected to dry...

Issaka in his farm

Regreening Africa project helps rehabilitate Issaka’s family land

In Niger, subsistence agriculture is the main activity of the population, especially in rural areas. Unfortunately, many areas are subjected to dry weather...

Daouda in his farm

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, one of the solutions to a rational management of our resources

In Niger, Agriculture is the main economic activity of the population. Indeed, it employs 86.9% of the working population (Agter, 2017). However, it is...

Bassira feeding her daughter Fadjimata

Widow Bassira’s once malnourished children are now well

It’s a sad statistic. According to UNICEF, only 23% of babies in Niger are properly fed. And for Bassira, a 40-year-old widow, it was even worse. Bassira...

COVID-19 in Niger: Roukaya misses her friend

Since the onset of COVID-19, World Vision remains attentive to its communities, more specifically children like Roukaya and Barira, who share with us their...

Amina fetches water at the pump

Refugees from Nigeria now finding safe harbour in Niger

Since April 2019, residents of Dan Kudan village in Nigeria have been fleeing to Maradi in Niger. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for...

Haoua waters her garden

Haoua now produces vegetables in sufficient quantity and quality

To address environmental constraints and livelihood issues in Niger, World Vision, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the...

Impact of the Positive Deviance/Hearth approach in Niger

Word Vision initiated the Positive Deviance/Hearth (PD/Hearth) approach in Niger in 2015. PD/Hearth is a behaviour change programme used to rehabilitate...

Asmaou and her 2 children

Pregnant Asmaou and her two children sleep hungry

Asmaou Hamadou, 30, lives in the village of Zabori Zadey in Dosso region with her husband, a farmer who can barely make ends meet. At seven months pregnant...

Empowering the women of Niger through savings groups

World Vision works with over 3,400 savings groups in Niger, bringing together more than 55,000 members; most of whom are women. Supported by World Vision...

Empowering the women of Niger through savings groups - Aissatou's testimony

Aissatou Alfari is a member of one of 3,400 savings groups in Niger that World Vision works with. Empowered by World Vision and like-minded partners...

Empowering the women of Niger through savings groups - Saddi's testimony

Saddi Alhassane is a member of one of 3,400 savings groups in Niger that World Vision works with. Empowered by World Vision and like-minded partners...

Message from our National Director for Niger on International Women's Day

Hear from World Vision's National Director for Niger, Yves Habumugisha, on the importance of empowering women and including them in decision-making. He...

Zara, the hidden heroine of Damagaram Takaya

Empowered by World Vision, hidden heroes like 18-year-old Zara from Zinder Region have been at the forefront of community sensitisation and ensuring that...

Participants at the workshop

Partnering for the economic empowerment of young people in Tillabery region

The TYEEP project, co-funded by World Vision and the PATRIP Foundation aims at the integration and economic and social development of young people in cross...

Collaborating to provide an alternative education system for children in Maradi during COVID-19

With Funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW), World Vision is implementing the 'Support to Maradi Region for an Alternative Education System in the...

Hadjara and her baby

Making childbirth safer for mothers in Niger

Through the Evidence to Action (E2A) Project, funded by USAID and led by Pathfinder International in collaboration with World Vision, Dan Dassey health hut...