Needed: School Lunches!

Village girls attending the Lycee Moderne de l’Amitie (LMA) are grateful and proud students:

• grateful to have the opportunity to attend this middle/secondary school and to receive a noon meal which, along with high standards and committed teachers, contributes to their success; and
• proud of their outstanding educational achievements thus far.  (98.5% passed year-end exams last year, enabling them to advance to the next class level.)

 Fanta and Zoenabou are two of the 400 village girls attending the LMA who benefit from a noon meal, thanks to the generosity of our GlobalGiving partners.  Here are their stories:

Fanta: I am 17 years old.  I have two brothers and two sisters.  My parents are farmers.  I am in my first year of secondary school at the LMA.  Since I walk three kilometers to school (and three kilometers home), often in 100 degree temperatures, I am very grateful to have a noon meal at school and be able to use my time to study.

Zoenabou: I am 18 years old and in my next to last year in secondary school.  My father died when I was very young.  I live with my mother in our village 7 km from this school.  My mother farms in order to support us.  During the rainy season, she grows millet, peanuts and beans, and during the dry season, she grows okra, onions and eggplant.  Without the school canteen, I would not have achieved my current level of education.  I would have had to abandon my education a long time ago.

 The village girls who attend the Lycee Moderne de l’Amitie have successfully completed their primary school educations under challenging conditions in village primary schools.  These students are serious and committed to completing secondary school and acquiring professional training.  They take their educations serious and we therefore take them serious.  “It takes a village”, that is all of our support, to help ensure the minimum conditions they need in order to succeed in their educations.  In the coming school year, our goal is to support noon meals for 200 village girls like Fanta and Zoenabou.  This will cost $17,400 for the entire school year.  Please join us in making sure that these students receive a basic noon meal and are able to do the work they need to do to succeed.

Thank you for all you have contributed to this endeavor!