Severe flooding of the Niger River has forced residents of SIM’s Sahel Academy and the Bible Center of Niamey to evacuate. In 2012, disastrous flooding displaced 53 people from their homes, requiring fortification of the compounds’ dike and the installation…
“I felt a dog was better than me,” says Mamane Abdou. “I was hopeless; I thought it was the end for me.” At just seven years of age, no one knew what was wrong with him. He was not functioning…
Nothing could have prepared John* of Niger, West Africa, for that fateful day. For the last two years, Niger has been at war with Boko Haram—an Islamic extremist terrorist group. John had heard reports of the brutal attacks in far-off…
It was volleyball night at Sahel Academy. In between games, a junior asked if he could interview me for one of his classes. He had a variety of questions for me all related to my college experience but he finished…