Already struggling to provide clean water to their own people, villages in Niger are now hosting Nigerian refugees. The IRC is building wells to ensure that everyone has enough to drink.
For more than a year, Niger has faced a continuous influx of people fleeing violence across the border in Nigeria. Some 150,000 have sought safety in the southeastern Diffa region alone. Communities in this arid region were already struggling to provide basics like clean water to their own people. Now they are sharing their scant resources with thirsty and traumatized refugees.