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New classroom buikt at the secondary school in Sogpelce
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Many students are provided with bicycles to reach the secondary school
Our secondary school is considered the best in western
Burkina for the quality of its teaching staff, low pupil/teacher
ration (53 compared to 60 nationwide) and students’ results.
One secondary school student, Nikiema Poulomde, came in first
in the Province and 19th nationwide. Similarly, our primary school
has also had excellent outcomes. This year, one primary school
student came in 1st in the district in terms of end of year results.
We would like to thank our volunteers Francesca Ferrari and Paolo
Bertolani who travelled to Burkina to meet with stakeholders,
visiting the schools we support, health posts and hospitals, and
homes of beneficiaries, interviewing students, their parents,
teachers, school staff, and school doctors, and documenting the
progress of the project.
Changing Lives - From our Beneficiaries
Nadège
Nadège is in Primary 5. Like all children in the village, she does
not have breakfast in the morning and reaches school by 7 am.
She will have lunch at the school. Nadège lives 10 minutes away
from the school in a typical rural village. The homes are made
of clay with hay and laminated roofs and metal sheets in lieu
of doors. There is no electricity or running water in the homes.
Nadège lives with her parents and four siblings, three of whom are
enrolled in school. During the day, the mother prepares dolo (a
local beer made from millet and contained in pumpkins), which
she sells at the nearby market. Nadège and her family members
sleep on mats on the floor that are rolled up during the day and
lean against the wall. Their clothes hang on a wire that crosses a
corner of the room from wall to wall.