West Africa Affiliates
Regional Overview
In West Africa, Partners Worldwide walks alongside businesspeople and entrepreneurs in both urban and rural communities of Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria to create jobs and overcome poverty. People of West Africa are subsistence farmers, producers of cloth, fisherman, nomadic cattle and sheep herders, seamstresses, retailers, government workers, traders and merchants.
Since 2001, Partners Worldwide has partnered with businesspeople in West Africa who desire to strengthen the marketplace. Each one participates in mentoring relationships and trains in business or agricultural stewardship. In addition, business owners have better access to capital through village savings, micro loans, or small and medium loans that stabilize businesses and create jobs.
Nigeria - Water Wins
East Kambari Region
Water Wins offers the Avadi people of northwest Nigeria a basic human right—clean water. Since 2005, Water Wins has partnered with over 125 villages to install boreholes and hand pumps that are market-driven. Communities partner in each installation by saving and investing 18-percent of the costs. Nigerian staff members also integrate holistic development in each community by training adults in literacy, health and sanitation, and by planting churches and schools in cooperation with village members. North American mentors walk alongside the staff with a background in engineering and project management.
Stories
Water Wins doubles efforts to provide access to clean water
Wednesday June 29, 2011
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This summer, engineers, business people, and friends rallied together to commission a second drill rig that would provide access to clean water for hundreds of people in Nigeria.
Called to Partnership - Living out the Calling: Water Wins
Friday April 8, 2011
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As a partnership, Water Wins leverages the God-given talents of Nigerians and North Americans to generate access to a basic human right—clean water.
Clean water reaps a physical and spiritual harvest
Sunday July 25, 2010
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My name is Maryamu Hassan, and my family and I live in the village of Kamfani, in Northern Nigeria. I am married to Hassan, and we have been blessed with 7 children.
We are subsistence farmers. We grow guinea corn as our staple crop, and also some maize. For cash, we grow some chili peppers, and black-eyed peas. All our farming is done by hand. Once in a while, when we can, my husband hires a yoke of oxen to plow some of our field, but the rest of our work from planting, weeding, to harvesting is done by hand. We carry the year’s farm yield to our home on our heads. This requires several trips, but we get it all done.