Contributions made by local residents have benefited residents of Niger, and a new Web site shows photographs of food distribution made possible by those donations.

Corvallis resident Ruth DeMaio, a former Peace Corps worker in Niger, has been gathering aid to help people in cities and villages where she used to live and work. Niger is suffering from a food shortage following a drought that severely effected crops.

The money DeMaio raised through St. Mary's Catholic Church and from the outside Corvallis community was sent to friends in Niger, who then crossed the border into Nigeria, purchased food, and brought it back into Niger.

Photos of residents in the Matankawara section of Birni N'Konni, Niger, who received 5.4 tons of millet, peanuts and dried cassava and fed up 2,500 families, are available online at www.cmug.com/~demaio/.

More photos, a video and a report on distribution will be added to the site soon.