Updates from the Field - Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
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Recent Updates from the Field
- Sep 30, 2009 - photo update
- Sep 30, 2009 - Fall 2009 update
- Jul 9, 2009 - An impressive report card for middle school girls
- Mar 3, 2009 - Thank you for your support
- Oct 15, 2008 - An update from Burkina Faso
- Jul 15, 2008 - Year-end school results
- Mar 11, 2008 - $.30 a day makes a difference
- Aug 9, 2007 - Parents support their daughters' education
- Aug 2, 2007 - Project Featured in the GlobalGiving FilmFest
- Jul 27, 2007 - Future plans
- Jul 20, 2007 - New matching funds
- Jun 5, 2007 - 06-07 school year results
- Mar 30, 2007 - Noon meal helps!
- Mar 27, 2007 - New photos
- Jul 19, 2006 - 2006 student achievement results
photo update
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, September 30, 2009 02:39 PM
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Fall 2009 update
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, September 30, 2009 02:39 PM
The girls continue to do extremely well academically, thanks to the LMA’s high standards, parental support (via the Lambs for School project), and the educational environment which includes a noon meal for the girls. With the increase in number of students, however, NEEED is challenged to provide a noon meal for all students this year. Parents are being asked for the first time to contribute the maximum possible to the lunch program: 25% of the cost. We need your support to ensure that the girls will be able to have a basic but nutritious noon meal, their only access to food throughout the day.
Given essential educational opportunities, girls from village farming families excel academically! The farther these girls go in school, the greater the chance that they will 1) make better choices for themselves and their future families, and 2) contribute to their communities and society in productive ways.
While our initial goal was to support the primary education of rural girls, we have seen (through their very high academic achievement and virtually zero dropout rate over the past ten years) both the girls’ and their parents’ commitment to continue their education as far as their efforts and our combined resources will allow them to go. For these reasons, both NEEED and Friends of Burkina Faso are determined to provide an adequate educational environment for the girls through secondary school. They have earned, and continue to earn, our support!
Our sincere thank you for your donations to the Noon Meal Improves Girls Learning in Burkina Faso Project. Your support contributes importantly to the educational environment that makes such achievement possible. Look for updates on the continuing progress of these exceptional girls.
We welcome your questions &/or feedback regarding any aspect of this project.
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An impressive report card for middle school girls
By Suzanne Plopper - Program Manager, July 09, 2009 09:15 PM
Access to a noon meal has played an essential role in the students’ success, along with dedicated teachers and parents and, most importantly, the commitment of students to their learning.
With an anticipated enrollment of 425 students in middle school next year, the cost of the school lunch program will be approximately $35,000 for the school year. Currently, we have $10,860 to support this project. With your help, we hope to raise an additional $17,000 in order to ensure the continuation of this essential element in the students’ success.
On behalf of NEEED and the middle school students and their parents, we thank you for your past and continuing support which is crucial to enabling these girls to succeed in school.
As always, we welcome your comments and questions.
To quote Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary General: “There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls”.
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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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An update from Burkina Faso
By Lacine Sawadogo - Coordinator of NEEED, October 16, 2008 01:22 PM
NEEED is very proud of our cafeteria and wishes to thank GlobalGiving and Friends of Burkina Faso for all of their support which has made it possible to serve a noon meal to the students of this middle school.
During the school day, three women prepare the noon meal for 400 students, using bottled gas in order to not consume wood. The large cooking pots are then placed near the dining area so students can be served.
We have a well that provides us with drinking water for the students and currently everyone is on vacation.
Thanks for your support.
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Year-end school results
By Suzanne Plopper - Program Manager, July 17, 2008 06:31 PM
We anticipate an enrollment of 500 students in middle school next year, an increase of 100 over last year. The cost of the school lunch program will rise to approximately $17,000. Currently, we have $8,000. We need to raise $9,000 in order to ensure the continuation of this essential element in the students’ success.
Our sincere thank you for your past, and continued, support for school lunches for the middle school girls. These basic lunches of rice and sauce (costing approximately $.31 per day per girl) contribute greatly to their ability to concentrate in school.
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$.30 a day makes a difference
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, Girls' Education Project, March 11, 2008 06:41 PM
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Parents support their daughters' education
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, Girls' Education Project, August 23, 2007 01:40 PM
With your help, Friends of Burkina Faso will cover the cost of the school lunch program for the middle school for the next two years. We are working towards raising $42,000 to cover the cost of the school lunch program for this school year. Thank you for your support.
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Project Featured in the GlobalGiving FilmFest
By The Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF) - , August 03, 2007 03:25 PM
Take a look at some attached photos and our new photos in the project photo gallery.
We are also pleased to report that we received an extra $5,000 from eBay for our project thanks to your generous donations during the eBay bounty period.
Again, thank you for your generous support!
Links:
- Video produced by Kathleen about our project
- Read more about Kathleen and why she made this video!
- Learn more about the GlobalGiving FilmFest
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Future plans
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, July 27, 2007 06:21 PM
These girls from rural villages are doing extremely well academically........... but of course, as with any project like this that grows so fast, it becomes more challenging to keep up the financial side.
NEEED, the organization we support, and which runs this girls' education project, is:
a.. planning to double the capacity of the girls' middle school in order to accomodate all girls out of rural primary schools who qualify. (NEEED will need to ultimately limit their enrollment at 1000 students.) They just received a surprise $10,000 and are beginning construction of the foundation of a new bloc of classrooms.
b.. seeking funds from other sources to build two new public middle schools in the region, and negotiating with the Ministry of Education to move these potential new public schools up the priority list for the MOE budget, in order to continue to ensure all girls (and boys in the case of the public schools) who successfully finish primary school a place in middle school. In addition to benefitting the girls they support in primary and middle school, NEEED also hopes to demonstrate to the government the capacity of these young girls and the benefits of educating women so as to nudge the government to do more in women's education in other regions of the country.
I'm very proud to be a partner with such forward-thinking, energetic and generous people........and of course do want to miss opportunities to help them achieve their goals.
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New matching funds
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, July 20, 2007 05:29 PM
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06-07 school year results
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, June 05, 2007 05:20 PM
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Noon meal helps!
By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, March 30, 2007 02:08 PM
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New photos
By Suzanne Plopper - Project leader, March 27, 2007 04:59 PM
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2006 student achievement results
By Suzanne Plopper - Project leader, July 20, 2006 01:43 PM
It is anticipated that with the provision of school lunches next year, 90% of students will succeed in passing qualifying exams.
Children need a minimum of nutrition in order to concentrate in school. The CMA is counting on your generous support so that it may provide school lunches next year.







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