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Overcoming Almost Impossible Odds

Because mere survival in Niger is a difficult proposition, Fourera’s success affects many lives. The United Nations ranks the country as the second most difficult in which to survive. Almost 60 percent of Nigerian children suffer chronic or acute malnutrition, and 25 percent die before their fifth birthday.

Nigerians live in a state of chronic hunger. They struggle daily to find enough food to feed their children and maintain the health and energy they need to work in the fields. Families in crisis do whatever it takes to survive, often losing their capacity to produce by selling off the handful of assets that they do possess: farm tools, livestock, even their crops in the ground.

Almost impossible for ...