Posts: Africa

Community engagement – A slam dunk in Niger

Community engagement – A slam dunk in Niger

Hi, I'd like to take a minute to update you on a project Spirit of America recently funded in Niger that we first told you about here. Our partner, a US civil affairs team working to reduce vulnerability to extremism and radicalization in the central Nigerien city of...

Repairing infrastructure and quality of life in Chad

Repairing infrastructure and quality of life in Chad

Hello, Today, I'd like to update you about a recent project Spirit of America funded in response to local needs identified by a US Civil Affairs team in Chad. The project provided a much-needed pump to repair the water system in Bardai, a desert oasis town in northern...

U.S. mission effects in Niger through a personal lens

U.S. mission effects in Niger through a personal lens

Greetings, I recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with some of the Spirit of America scholarship recipients that recently graduated from Community Veterinary Tech program in Maradi, Niger. Chris chats with SoA supported graduates during a recent visit to...

Facilitating community action against Boko Haram

Facilitating community action against Boko Haram

Recently, the Nigerien military hosted a Counter-Boko Haram summit, with support from Spirit of America and US Forces. The event took place in the southern Region of Diffa, near the border with Nigeria, where Niger's Boko Haram problems have been centered. The one-day...

Update to our counter-Boko Haram efforts

Update to our counter-Boko Haram efforts

Greetings, Our new Africa project manager, Chris VanJohnson, and I recently returned from southern Niger, where Boko Haram has been terrorizing the civilian population in their pursuit of a caliphate. Over the past few months, Spirit of America has provided support –...

Safeguarding against Boko Haram

Safeguarding against Boko Haram

Greetings, I recently returned from the West African country of Niger. Situated north of Nigeria and west of Chad, the southern portion of the country has been plagued by attacks by Boko Haram. Fighters belonging to the extremist organization, which recently pledged...

Helping young victims of violence, poverty and disease in Chad

Helping young victims of violence, poverty and disease in Chad

With your assistance, Spirit of America was recently able to help some of the most vulnerable members of the population of an important ally in West Africa, Chad. In a story we first told you about here, how we provided basic hygiene and educational supplies, as well...

Anti-Boko Haram “CAMERACTION” concert a success

Anti-Boko Haram “CAMERACTION” concert a success

In a project we first told you about here, Spirit of America has been supporting the efforts of Cameroonians standing up against the terrible impacts of Boko Haram, the extremist organization that has terrorized the civilian populations in the Lake Chad Basin of...

Countering extremism through opportunity in Niger

Countering extremism through opportunity in Niger

Greetings, I recently returned from ten days in Niger, the culmination of a project Spirit of America has been working on since the beginning of the year. Niger, just to the north of Nigeria, with Mali to its west, Chad to its east, and northern borders with Libya and...

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