Archive for December, 2013

Seven graduates from Secondary School, all P4K Scholarship recipients, receive their first ever laptops from P4K in their first year of University!

Seven girls graduated from Secondary School in July, passing both their Terminale Level and their tremendously challenging National BAC exams.  All of them were P4K Scholarship recipients and all are now enrolled in the University of Niamey, two in Medicine.  We are incredibly proud of their accomplishments. From a very generous grant to Pencils for […]

Rotary continues to drill wells in Libore!

Carl Vahl is relentless in his desire to bring water to each and every village in Libore and all the schools. For the past five years, Carl, a Rotarian from the Olean Rotary Club, and many other Rotarians from other clubs, have come to Libore to drill wells. There are over 50 of them now […]

Farmers of the Future pilot shows promise!

In the second full year of our pilot program in three villages, we made a change.  We put all the vegetable gardens and tree nurseries in the hands of mothers, who would manage them full time, year-round. They would sell what they planted and earn a profit.  They would pay back expenses after a period […]