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Welcome to Remember Niger
The August 2010 trip, which focused on the media center and computer labs for one of the schools in Niger, was successful. Thank you for your continued support.
This fall, we have another chance to help Nigerien children. The school building in Aguie has recently been completed. A dinner and auction will be held in the Twin Cities area on October 17, 2010, to raise money for equipment and supplies. Please join us, if you are able, for a casual evening of fun, a simple Nigerien-style meal, music and auction featuring amazing artwork by Nigerien students and much more. Money raised at this fundraiser will ensure that more Nigerien children will be given the opportunity to receive an education. Click here to let us know you will attend this special opportunity. If you are not able to attend, I hope you will consider making a donation. As always all donations to Remember Niger are tax-deductible . You can make your donation by clicking here. Thank you in advance,
Kara VanderKamp
Executive Director
Remember Niger
------------------------------------------ REMEMBER NIGER Children begging for money with rusted tin bowls offers insight into the extreme lack of educational opportunities in Niger. These children are trying to collect enough money to attend a Koranic School. For West African parents, sending their children to a school where the Koran is studied is an Islamic tradition that goes back many centuries. Sadly, in recent decades this practice has suffered abuse by people who make money at the expense of the children.* With little government oversight, thousands of these students spend much of their time on the streets tired, neglected, hungry and begging. Often, their education consists of copying and memorizing the Koran for only a few hours a week in a small make shift classroom packed with students. This situation underscores the desperation parents feel because of the lack of educational opportunities in Niger. In a country where the majority of the people have never attended school, parents are prone to utilize any educational opportunity afforded to them, regardless of quality, because they understand that education is a key to economic mobility. It is this lack of educational opportunity that moves Remember Niger partners in the United States and Niger to action. Click here to take action...*To learn more about these abuses please go to the following website: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351989,00.html |
