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Join Rain for the Sahel and Sahara for RAIN Dance 2023 honoring longtime supporters & RAIN Champions Barbara (Board FY14-22) & Ivor Freeman.

Thursday, May 25th 2023 at Alnoba, Kensington NH

At RAIN Dance we gather together to acknowledge the power we have as a community to help people across Niger live healthier and happier lives.

This year we’re planning an incredible celebration and we would love for you to be a part of it!

Purchase Tickets Here!

Or fill out this form to become a sponsor and your tickets are included!
Sponsorship benefits are listed here: RAIN-DANCE-Sponsorship-May-25-2023.pdf

Contact Freya@rain4sahara.org with any questions.

All are welcome at our celebration. If you want to join us but ticket cost is an issue, please reach out to Katherine at katherine@rain4sahara.org

Thank you to our current sponsors including:

Northeast Delta Dental
Chinburg Properties
Cornerstone Financial Planning
Kennebunk Savings Bank
John Ahlgren

Our Executive Director, Katherine Kolios, will be the featured speaker on Sunday, February 26th at St. John’s Episcopal Church,100 Chapel Street Portsmouth, 03801. The talk is called “Outside the Box with Katherine Kolios” Please join us in the Philbrick Room after the 10:00 a.m. service for a guest speaker and light lunch. Katherine will share about the good works the organization is performing in Niger (Africa) and the challenges it faces, especially as it relates to climate change. The series aims to gain insight into our neighbors a continent away as we venture Outside The Box. Learn more:

http://www.stjohnsnh.org/new-events/2023/2/26/outside-the-box

Seacoast friends rejoice! July 31st is Pan African Women’s Day, which celebrates the achievements of African Women & advocates for gender equality!

Join Rain for the Sahel and Sahara for our 20th Anniversary Event honoring longtime supporter, Jo Lamprey.

June 23rd at the Word Barn in Exeter, NH

At RAIN Dance we gather together to acknowledge the power we have as a community to help people
across Niger live healthier and happier lives.

This year marks RAIN’s 20th anniversary, and we would love for you to be a part of the celebration!

Purchase Tickets Here!

Or fill out this form to become a sponsor and your tickets are included!
Sponsorship benefits are listed here: 2022 RAIN Dance Sponsorship Packet

Consider our RAIN Dance 2022 Fund-a-Need

Contact Amy@rain4sahara.org with any questions.

Thank you to our current sponsors!

Missed our screening and panel discussion in Concord? We hope to bring this screening to the Seacoast and Hanover areas in 2022 – stay tuned!

We were thrilled to host three local community leaders at the Red River Theatres screening and discussion:

Moderator: James McKim and panelists: Malika Kounkourou and Ali Sekou.

They discussed racial equity, the ongoing impacts of colonialism, and how these dynamics pertain to us, here in NH.

Moderator: James McKim
President of the Manchester NAACP, Chair of the Episcopal Church’s National Executive Council Committee on Anti-Racism, and Chair of the NHPBS Finance Committee.

Panelist: Malika Kounkourou
Daughter of Nigerien immigrants, pursuing a degree in International Relations at Boston University. Malika is also a Liaison Officer for the Ihsan Foundation and FIPSO Niger.

Panelist: Ali Sekou
Nigerien native and board member for the Islamic Society of Greater Concord and the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success. Received the Union Leader’s 40 Under Forty Award and is in Leadership NH class of ’21.

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Rain for the Sahel and Sahara (Niger), Nurturing Minds (Tanzania) and Education for All Children (Kenya) for African Trivia