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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF) supports NEEED, a Burkinabe grantmakers organization that enrolls young rural girls in village schools, using funds to purchase a lamb and school materials for students’ first year of schooling. The family assumes responsibility for their children’s education for 5 years of primary school, and 4 years of middle school for those who qualify. Each spring, parents sell the fattened lamb. Proceeds are used to buy school materials and a new lamb for the next year.
Activities
Students walk 6 km to attend school from the local village. They have nothing to eat throughout the day. The project will provide a noon meal to students, enhancing their capacity to learn. Also, locally prepared meals will generate local employment.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $43,453
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $36,547
Total Funding Goal: $80,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to participate fully in the development process. Access to food will increase students' ability to succeed in their studies
Project Message
"You can provide [sic] schools, but children will not learn if they are hungry."
- "Foreign Aid," The Economist, April 1, 2006
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on March 11, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 15, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
$.30 a day makes a difference
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, Girls' Education Project, March 11, 2008 06:41 PM
NEEED (the Burkinabe NGO that founded & runs the girls' education project) reports that 98% of girls supported by the Lambs For School Project (see Education For 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso) are passing annual exams in primary school; and 100% are passing annual exams in middle school, qualifying them to go to the next level. It is anticipated that middle school enrollment will grow from 400 this year to 600 next year. At just $.30 per student per day, school lunches are essential to students' ability to concentrate and succeed in their studies.
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