By Suzanne Plopper | Program manager
Mamounata and Alima are two village girls who entered primary school in 2010 thanks to the Lambs Support Girls’ Education Project. Following six years of primary school, both will enter their third year of middle school this fall.
Both girls are already successful entrepreneurs. As happens occasionally, the lambs they received from this project when they entered primary school turned out to be pregnant. In keeping with the project’s strategy – parents raising and selling their daughter’s lamb at the end of each school year in order to pay for her school fees and materials for the next year while buying a younger lamb to raise and sell the following year – the girls were able to keep the younger generation lamb. Mamounata now has nine sheep and Alima seven. The sale of their lambs/sheep have continued to pay for their school fees and materials and one set of clothes each year. It has also enabled them to pay for their lunches and library fees at school and allowed them to get bicycles which are necessary for them to get from their villages to their middle schools. Mamounata adds that, along with progressing well with her studies, she has started raising chickens as a small side business. Alima’s goal is to become a primary school teacher. Mamounata and Alima express their deepest gratitude to GlobalGiving donors for having given them the opportunity for an education.
This year, 89.6% of village girls enrolled in primary school with the support of this project passed their year-end national exams compared with 61.6% of students nationally. As the beginning of the new school year approaches, we hope to enable another 75 young girls from five villages to begin their educational journey with the help of a lamb to support their remaining 12 years of primary – secondary school. An initial $80/girl is all it takes. We ask for your help in giving these bright young girls the only opportunity they will have to embark on their educations. They and their indigent parents will take it from there.
Thank you!
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