Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
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Summary
The project pays for a noon meal for girls who attend a girls’ middle school and whose parents cannot afford school. Girls walk 6 km to and from school and have no other source of food during the day.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
For the 2008-09 school year, Friends of Burkina Faso will support noon meals for about 500 students of the College Modern de l'Amitie, at a cost of $.31/day/student. A noon meal is essential to students' learning, particularly as they have little or no breakfast and walk 6 km in the heat to and from school. In the 2007-08 school year, the noon meal contributed to an impressive 81% of students completing coursework successfully.
Activities
Three local women prepare a common noon meal of rice and sauce for the students, enhancing students capacity to learn and succeed in their education.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $62,733
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $17,266
Total Funding Goal: $80,000
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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
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Suzanne Plopper
Project Manager, Girls' Education Project
P.O. Box 395
Chester, CA 96020
United States
530-284-7414
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Organization
Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF)
P.O. Box 395
Chester,
CA
96020
United States
530-284-7414
http://fbf.tamu.edu
Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso |
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Burkina Faso
and can also be found under 
Children.
For more information about Burkina Faso, read the Human Development Report on Burkina Faso or the Wikipedia entry for Burkina Faso.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on March 5, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 15, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Thank you for your support
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, March 05, 2009 01:16 PM
Providing noon meals to the students of the middle school ensures that these girls receive basic nourishment which will enable them to have the capacity to learn and succeed in school. The girls walk 6 km to and from school in the sweltering heat with little to nothing to eat in the morning. The lunch of rice, corn or beans with sauce now costs $.40 a day for one girl, an amount that their families are unable to pay.
The students of this middle school are from villages in the region and are pursuing their education thanks to the support of individual donors in some cases and of our sister project “Education For 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso” (also known as the Lambs For School Project). We are all proud of the educational achievements of these girls, the women of tomorrow in Burkina Faso.
Thank you for your continuing support!
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