Niger

Peul Bororo (Wadabee) man, dressed and made up for a beauty competition. Beauty is a great value for Peul Bororos. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Peul Bororo (Wadabee) man, dressed and made up for a beauty competition. Beauty is a great value for Peul Bororos. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Peul Bororo (Wadabee) man, dressed and made up for a beauty competition. Beauty is a great value for Peul Bororos. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Peul Bororo (Wadabee) men, dressed and made up for a beauty competition. Beauty is a great value for Peul Bororos. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Peul Bororo (Wadabee) men, dressed and made up for a beauty competition. Beauty is a great value for Peul Bororos. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg camel race. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg dance. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg man. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg man. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg man. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg man. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg man. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg man. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg woman. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg woman. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg woman. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg girls. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg woman. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg girls. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg woman. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg woman. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg girl. Aïr Festival, sustained by a CISP’s project. Iférouane, Niger 2018
Tuareg artisans at work. CISP is sustaining local craftsmanship. Agadez, Niger 2018
Tuareg artisan at work. CISP is sustaining local craftsmanship. Agadez, Niger 2018
Tuareg artisan at work. CISP is sustaining local craftsmanship. Agadez, Niger 2018
Tuareg artisan at work. CISP is sustaining local craftsmanship. Agadez, Niger 2018
Agadez, the Mosque. CISP is restoring part of the old city. Niger 2018
Agadez, the baker’s house. CISP is restoring part of the old city. Niger 2018
Agadez, the baker’s house. CISP is restoring part of the old city. Niger 2018
Agadez, the house of Heinrich Barth, the first European who arrived in the city in 1850. CISP is restoring the house. Niger 2018
Atchangulu, 36 years old, in the earth house provided by a CISP project, where she lives with her husband and 4 children. Chétimari, Diffa Region, Niger 2018
Fatoumata al Bashar, 27 years old, president of a cooperative of women producing palm leaf mats, selling them to CISP for transitional shelters. Many Nigerian refugees of Arab origin are fleeing Boko Haram. Madlan, few kilometres from the border with Nigeria, Diffa Region. Niger 2018

Niger has been for 30 years a crucial junction on the migratory route, and Agadez the starting point of the journey across the Sahara Desert, which has become a cemetery. The first great natural barrier on the route is the Sahara, the second one the Mediterranean Sea, another cemetery. Between the two there is Libya with its prisons. So, Niger is the place where migrants should be sustained in order not to leave. Italian NGO CISP (International Committee for the Development of Peoples) - in the country since 2006 – is involved in reducing the migratory flow through two projects funded by the European Union. One project sustains local culture and craftsmanship offering work to local young people in the Agadez Region. The other one offers refugees, IDPs (internally displaced persons) and vulnerable people in the Diffa Region, on the border with Nigeria, houses in earth architecture and parcels of land: a real neighbourhood in an area full of camps. Both projects are focused on local cultures in order to reach sustainability. CISP always aims at development beyond emergency.