Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso Photo Gallery

NEEED’s Lacine Sawadogo gives a young girl materia

Lacine Sawadogo, Project Coordinator for NEEED, organizes the distribution of school materials for primary school girls supported by NEEED. Here, Mr. Sawadogo assists a young girl with her materials for the 2007-08 school year.

School girls with parents and with school supplies

Primary school girls from the village of Samtinga at the beginning of the school year 2007-08.

Young girls ready to begin the school year thanks

In preparation for the school year, young village girls receive from NEEED pencils, paper, chalk boards and chalk, a T-shirt and skirt, simple backpack, and a lantern to study by at night.

Girls examine their school materials.

Young girls examine the school materials they received from NEEED at ceremonies at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year. From the initial support which enables them to enter school, the girls' parents raise and sell their daughters' lambs each year to enable them to continue their studies through 10 years of school.

School materials to be distributed to primary scho

A partial suppy of materials to be distributed to young village girls at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year. The materials include a simple kerosene lamp for each girl so that she can study at night.

Primary school girls pose with their parents and l

Young school girls in the village of Aorema pose with their parents and their lambs at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year. NEEED's assistance with the purchase of the lambs, and the girls' parents' participation in raising, selling and purchasing of new lambs each year will enable the girls to complete 10 years of school.

Young girls at NEEED's 2007-08 ceremonies

Young girls line up to receive school materials at NEEED ceremonies at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year. They are wearing T-shirts and skirts provided by NEEED. They will also receive classroom materials, a small backpack, a lamp and a lamb to raise and sell in order to support future years' schooling.

Primary school girls with parents and lambs in Kol

Proud school girls in the village of Kolkom pose with their fathers and their lambs at the beginning of the school year.

School girls enter school

School girls supported by the lambs for school project (organized by NEEED) enter school during the first week of the school year.