By Suzanne Plopper | Program manager
Working hard to fulfill their dreams are Salmata and Kadiguetou, students at the Lycee Moderne de l’Amitie (LMA). Salmata is 16 years old and in 9th grade. She is very grateful to be at this school because it has good teachers and good work conditions, including the canteen which allows her to have a noon meal and to study during the noon break. Salmata has long dreamed of becoming a commercial pilot and dreams of one day working for Air Burkina or Air France. What an educational opportunity offers a village girl from a subsistence farming family!
Kadiguetou, 18 years old, is in 11th grade. Also from a subsistence farming family, Kadiguetou has studied at the LMA since the beginning of middle school. Her studies are concentrating on science and she hopes to attend medical school following graduation from secondary school in two years. She has seen first-hand people’s suffering from a lack of medical care and she looks forward to becoming a physician and caring for the health needs of her community.
Salmata and Kadiguetou are just two of the village girls attending this school who have developed confidence and pride in their abilities and a vision of what they want to do in life. And like other students, they speak of the conditions from which they came, where they would not have a noon meal were it not for the canteen at the LMA. Both express their sincere gratitude for the contributions of GlobalGiving donors who make this canteen possible!
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