Help Send 900 Girls to School in Ouelessebougou!

"Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future." ~ Queen Rania of Jordan

The education of girls is of primary importance to Ouelessebougou Alliance. Village Education Councils make plans and coordinate efforts to create a literate village. A major focus is increasing girls' enrollment and educating parents in the village on the importance of their daughters receiving an education. One of the ways this is accomplished is through teacher training. Teachers are trained to initiate parent-teacher relationships to help families recognize the value in ALL children receiving a quality education.

While girls in Ouelessebougou have traditionally stayed home from school to help raise their siblings, their parents now realize the importance of sending them to school. More than 45% of the students in attendance this year are girls! Unlike their mothers, these girls have access to a school, sanitation, teachers and quality learning. Our schools continually have a higher girls' enrollment rate (over 20%) than the rest of Mali.

With your help, the Alliance hopes to continue to further educational opportunities for girls in Ouelessebougou. A $25 donation will send ONE girl to school for a whole year!

Iniche!

Many people see education as a singular issue. Especially in the region where the Alliance works, education is school supplies, teacher trainings, and building structures. And while those are extremely important, education, especially for girls, is so much more.

Girls with 8 years of education are 4 times less likely to be married as children.

Every year a girl stays in school her income will increase by 10-20%.

Each extra year of education for a mother reduces the probability of infant mortality by 5-10%.

Educated mothers are more than twice as likely to send their own children to school.

The Ouelessebougou Alliance is, has been, and will always be, committed to girl’s education. We are committed to expanding primary educational opportunities to village children generally, and specifically, to increasing the number of girls in school.

We are committed to spreading information about the importance of education and the cause- and -effect relationship it has with other important factors in individual’s lives, especially in developing areas.

It is only through support from people like you that we can continue to bring these programs to Ouelessebougou! And, it is only through our partnership with people like you, that we can help spread the message of education all over the world.

Thank you for your support of educating girls! We couldn’t do it without you!

Thank you! Merci! Iniche!