June 5, 2013
Amman Imman's new borehole in Couloubade

Dear Friends of the Azawak,

Denis, Fassely, Soriya, and I returned from Niger mid-April 2013 after five rewarding months. With the support of the Vibrant Village Foundation and our ever-devoted student Heroes of Compassion, we accomplished all of our planned projects despite the outbreak of war in neighboring Mali, and ongoing terrorist threats. I am particularly grateful to Denis and Momine (project coordinator), who braved the risks of being taken hostage to pursue our life saving and enhancing work for our communities in the Azawak. I am also ever thankful to Amman Imman’s associate director, Debbie, for successfully coordinating Amman Imman’s Wells of Love activities, and organizing a powerful Walk for Water 2013. We are particularly proud to have a positive influence on the hearts and minds of students worldwide meanwhile improving lives in Niger!....(read more here)

March 28, 2013
Amman Imman is an official charity partner of the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon!

Amman Imman is an official charity partner of the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon! Secure your spot to run the popular race now, and help us bring sustainable water sources and other humanitarian aid to Niger's Azawak region, sadly, one of the few places in the world where people still die of thirst. We have 25 open runner slots for the race....(read more here)

February 27, 2013
Amman Imman Announces 2013 A Walk for Water

Dear Friend of the Azawak,

On May 11, 2013, Amman Imman will host the 7th annual "A Walk for Water" at a new venue -- the Locust Grove Nature Center at Cabin John Regional Park in Bethesda, Maryland. Students and their families, from schools across the DC area, will come together to walk 3 miles on the wooded trails, offering their support to children and families living in the Azawak of West Africa. We hope that you and your family will join us! (read more here)

February 04, 2013
Fitness Philanthropy - and Fun for Kids - with the Amman-a-thon

This year we are highlighting The Amman-a-thon, our signature fitness fun-draising activity in which students practice their athletic skills with the intent of raising funds to support Amman Imman's projects. Amman-a-thons have become yearly events at several schools. We'd like to see more schools implementing this activity! To learn more visit our Amman-a-thon campaign page. From there, you'll be able to download a step-by-step Planning Guide and Fundraising Kit. We share some stories about the Amman-a-thon here: (read more here)

November 17, 2012
Collaboration Doubles Compassion

Minnieland Huguenot decorated and sold pinwheels while learning about Air, Land, and Water in September. In the spring of 2010 I had the opportunity to meet with the Montessori teachers of Minnieland Academy to share our Wells of Love program at an end-of-year luncheon. The teachers recognized an opportunity for their students. By learning about the people of the Azawak, who live in circumstances quite different than their own, their 3-6 year old students would gain a global perspective. Given the opportunity to help, these young leaders would lay a foundation for their future by manifesting their potential to make a tangible difference people's lives...(read more here)

As you may know, Amman Imman drilled its newest borehole earlier this year for the community of Ebagueye. The primary funder, The Vibrant Village Foundation, has once again provided invaluable help by funding an emergency food relief project in Ebagueye. Over the months of September and October, we will have distributed 40 tons of millet to Ebagueye and its 12 surrounding communities. Our aim has been to help cover the food needs of Ebagueye’s 400 most vulnerable families, approximately 2800 people, as we await grain prices to fall in Niger....(read more here)

september 9, 2012
Students raise over $50,000 to help the Azawak

Students across the world have once again proven that determination, perseverance, empathy, compassion, and action can save lives... one borehole at a time. This past school year alone our student “Heroes of Compassion” raised more than $50,000 and an enduring awareness about the Azawak in their communities. Since 2006, more than 100 schools in the United States, Canada, France, Sweden and New Zealand collectively raised close to $200,000, helping Amman Imman to construct and manage four boreholes in the Azawak that in the hot season relieve the thirst of up to 100,000 people and animals...(read more here)

Through our work in Niger’s Azawak Valley, we have learned that local communities are the heart and soul of our work. They are not only the people for which we work, but those with which we work. They are some of our most important partners. They represent the key to sustaining life-giving water sources over the long-term and to ensuring that each water source enables further development. The power of our local partners is demonstrated by the story of Ebagueye Village, home to Amman Imman’s newest borehole well. As you know, Amman Imman means ‘water is life’. Within just six months, I have seen this prophecy come to fruition for those in Ebagueye Village....(read more here)

August 28, 2012
Student philanthropists take action for the Azawak

For young students, the heart of philanthropy opens when they discover a problem, gain understanding, and are given the tools at their level to take action that makes a difference. The Evergreen Montessori School's global service program opens the door to philanthropy for their students. Last year, elementary students at Evergreen learned about several organizations that address global issues. The students divided into committees, each group choosing one of the causes as their focus. Over the course of several months, these young philanthropists studied the issues, participated in activities that raised awareness about their cause, and collected money to contribute towards their chosen organization's program. I shared Amman Imman: Water is Life with Evergreen students in the spring. All the students were so receptive! Upon learning about children and families in the Azawak suffering due to the lack of water, three students decided to make Amman Imman their cause. They deeply wanted to help. "When the students see a need, they feel an impulse to help. And when it comes to caring, they don't stop themselves from responding to their impulse." says Lourdes Barden, Programs Director at Evergreen...(read more here)

Denis, Fassely, and I returned from Niger mid-March after four grueling yet extremely rewarding months running various projects in the Azawak.  With donations from individuals like you, funds raised by school children worldwide, and help from two dedicated foundations – The Vibrant Village Foundation and The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) – we constructed the borehole of Ebagueye village.  The borehole will serve the needs of Ebagueye, the twelve surrounding smaller communities, as well as passing nomads and more distant populations.  You can imagine our tremendous joy as we witnessed the children gulping down and jubilantly bathing in the pure borehole water for the first time.......(read more here)

march 22, 2012
With Water, There Is Life

Washington DC, March 22, 2012—Water—and having plentiful access to it—has transformed from dream to reality for those living on a slice of West Africa's most barren landscape. So this World Water Day, Amman Imman: Water is Life celebrates. We celebrate the crystalline water that thousands of people living in Niger's Azawak region now drink each day. And we celebrate that many in the world have made water a priority: according to a recent report from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, Millennium Development Goal 7 has been met three years early by halving the number of people without access to clean water since 1990. "With water, there will be life," Ariane Kirtley, Amman Imman's Founder and Director, has always said.......(read more here)

February 27, 2012
With two new partnerships, Amman Imman: Water is Life brings water, food to many more in Niger

Another 25,000 people and their animals in Niger's Azawak Valley will now have access to clean water, largely because of support from Amman Imman' s two newest partners: The Vibrant Village Foundation and The Prem Rawat Foundation. Through a combined grant of $173,000 from the two foundations, additional funds totaling $64,000 from Amman Imman's partnering schools, and individual supporters, our fourth borehole well in the village of Ebagueye is now complete. We are poised to conduct additional life-changing activities in the village, as well as to provide direct food assistance, gardening training and educational materials in the villages where Amman Imman's existing boreholes are already operating......(read more here)

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