Rain4Sahara
The RAIN Report
September 2022
Teach a Man to Fish : Teach a Woman to Garden
This season, RAIN partnered with 109 women in Ankaf, Betarmatas, and Torguit to provide training on sustainable agriculture and to implement community gardens. Read the full RAIN Report here:
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Tickets Now on Sale for the 3rd annual RAIN Dance – fundraiser benefitting Rain for the Sahel and Sahara.
Portsmouth NH – Rain for the Sahel and Sahara (RAIN) announces the return of RAIN Dance, the organization’s largest annual fundraiser, to occur on Thursday, June 23rd, 2022, from 6 – 8:00 PM. Tickets are $150 per person (young professionals, …
Give Back NH Features RAIN
Recently the bi-weekly NH Public Radio segment that spotlights nonprofit organizations across the Granite State interviewed the RAIN team in Portsmouth. It was a great opportunity to talk about the need in Niger and why RAIN is working there:
“We’re really trying to intervene at a time when we can help work with communities to address what their own desires are for their future and help give them the infrastructure that they need… …
Brian “Barke” Nowak passed away in November. Brian was a former RAIN Director of Programs, devoted advocate of Niger, and a beloved friend. As a way to remember and honor him, we’d like to share a few words from some of the many people who were lucky enough to know him.
Brian “Barke” Nowak 1977 – 2021
Bess Palmisciano, …
Dear RAIN friends,
This past month, RAIN, friends, family, and the broader Nigerien community lost our beloved Brian Nowak. In Niger, Brian was known was “Barke,” meaning “blessings” in Fulani. Barke is a name he received in 1998 on his first trip to Niger as an undergraduate student at Boston University.
Brian lived in Niger for over 15 years – …
Dear Friend of RAIN,
Niger is once again in the news as an attempted coup was thwarted last week. The coup was stopped quickly and is being handled appropriately. Things have been calm since then and President Bazoum’s inauguration on Friday proceeded peacefully.
President Bazoum’s inauguration marks the first successful, democratic transition of power between two elected Presidents since Niger’s independence in 1960. …
