Niger: Responding to education needs in a difficult context

 

In the midst of difficult conditions, the International Rescue Committee in Niger launched its education program in coordination with the Ministry of Education. Read about suggested good practices for working in similar contexts, based on the experience from this program.

February 25, 2020 by Kiruba Murugaiah , International Rescue Committee
 
A girl at the blackboard in Niger. Credit: IRC
(c) IRC
 
Landing in Diffa, Niger, I am again taken by the sheer and vast natural beauty of the Sahelian landscape — the redness of the earth, the sparse dotting of trees, and, there, a lone herder taking shade under a tree as his goats graze nearby.