Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso

by Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF)
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso

Project Report | Jul 17, 2008
Year-end school results

By Suzanne Plopper | Program Manager

I am very happy to report that 81% of middle school girls passed national exams in May, qualifying them to go on to the next class. Their achievement levels continue to rise: in '05-'06, 71% passed these exams; and in '06-'07, 77% passed. Next year, the first class to attend the girls' middle school will take year-end exams to determine their eligibility for senior high school. With students' hard work, in an adequate learning environment (with committed teachers, 50-student class sizes AND a daily noon meal), we hope that 100% of the girls will qualify for senior high school. (This year, by contrast, 37% of middle school students from all public middle schools in the region passed qualifying exams to go on to senior high school.) 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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Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF)

Location: Chester, CA - USA
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Suzanne Plopper
Project Leader:
Suzanne Plopper
Project Manager, Girls' Education Project
Chester , CA United States

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