Amman Imman

Our school is sponsoring a project named "Amman Imman." Ariane Kirtley is the founder and program director of "Amman Imman, Water is Life." Ariane speaks with such compassion about teh children and adults in the Azawak, Niger's most remote and abandoned territory, covering 80,000 square miles and inhabited by 500,000 people. There are barely and roads, dirt paths, schools or health centers, and most importantly there are no permanent sources of water. Amman Imman's mission is to help the water situation by building permanent sources of water throughout the territory. Ariane came to our school in the beginning of last year's school year (2006) and spoke with such compassion about her experience and lack of help from world organizations. At first she tried to get support but was told that no help could be given. She did not take no for an answer. Instead she started traveling around in North America spreading her word about the lack of water, the people of the Azawak Valley and the need for financial support. She was very knowledgeable about her topic and convincing. She made us all feel we needed to take part in raising funds. She made me believe I can help change the lives for these people. My school helped spread the word to other Montessori schools around the country and the world and with their help we raised enough money to build the first bore-hole. There are still many bore-holes to build.