Post secondary Education for Girls in Burkina Faso

As the school year begins in Burkina Faso, we extend our sincere Thank You to our GlobalGiving partners.  Your generous donations this past year have made it possible for 15 young village women in Burkina Faso to enter primary school teacher training this fall.  The selections have been made by Association NEEED and the Ministry of Education and the young teacher trainees are about to embark on their professional training. 

We are proud that all but one of the 56 recipients of Friends of Burkina Faso/GlobalGiving scholarships in the past four years have successfully completed their training or are currently in training.  Proper selection of qualified and motivated young village women!

Nabo, who just completed her second year of primary school teacher training, explains what this primary teacher training consists of.  The first year of training includes educational theory and pedagogy applied to primary school education in French, math, earth science, life science and physical education; educational psychology; professional ethics; laws governing primary school education; and a dissertation. 

 The second year of training focuses on practice in the classroom. The trainee is assigned to a primary school and spends the year in all six grades: 1) observing classroom teachers teaching their classes, and 2) putting into practice their own knowledge gained from their first year of instruction and from their observations of teachers.

At the end of training, students take a comprehensive exam in order to be certified, followed by a civil service exam in order to be hired by the government.

Nabo describes her two years of training as a very positive experience and thanks Friends of Burkina Faso/GlobalGiving donors for making it possible.  She looks forward to being assigned to a primary school this fall and to being able to assist her family financially.

On behalf of our scholarship recipients, we thank you for your past and continued support for the postsecondary education of these deserving young women.

Tomorrow, July 12, is GlobalGiving’s biggest Bonus Day of 2017! Don’t miss your chance to maximize your support for girls’ education in Burkina Faso this year. Starting at 9am EDT (6am PDT), you have two ways to contribute:

One Time Donation: To make a one-time donation to the Postsecondary Education for Girls in Burkina Faso Project, go to https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/post-secondary-education-for-girls-in-burkina-faso. Your donation will be matched 50% up to $1,000! Bonus prizes will be awarded to the projects with the most unique number of donors so please spread the word on email or all of your social media channels! The more other donors give, the more our project stands to gain during the competition. Matching funds always go very, very fast-often within the first 10 minutes of the competition!!!! So please set your alarms to 9am EDT (6am PDT) sharp and donate early and quickly!

Recurring Donation: To become a recurrent donor to the this project, go to https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/post-secondary-education-for-girls-in-burkina-faso. Now is the time as tomorrow only, all new recurrent donors’ donations will be matched 100% up to $100 for the first three months! 

Whichever way you choose to support the Friends of Burkina Faso, know that your funds go far and leave a lasting impact on the young women we invest in.

Your funds directly support the postsecondary training of young women like Seydata and Risnata, young women who have overcome huge challenges in their lives. Both are completing their primary school teacher training now. Seydata is the youngest of 11 children. Orphaned at 14, she had to provide for herself. Seydata did domestic work for a family until the head of household threatened to abuse her. In her search of training for productive employment, she was awarded one of our GlobalGiving scholarships. Not only has she escaped a dangerous and vulnerable situation that could have taken her down an all-too predictable path, she feels so lucky and thankful for the opportunity to work with young children as a primary school teacher.

Risnata comes from a subsistence farming family. Her father died when she was seven and her mother had to marry one of his brothers in order to keep her children together. Following middle school, Risnata rose at 5am to prepare and sell street food on the side of the road to pay for her evening classes. But now, thanks to GlobalGiving donors like you, she is completing her postsecondary education in primary school teaching and is looking forward to paying it forward one day. Once she is employed as a teacher, she promises to support the educational expenses of another indigent girl for postsecondary training. “Dear partners of Association NEEED, you saved my life and I will never forget it. Please accept with love these small but noble words: Thank you!”

Tomorrow, you can help us create more success stories like Seydata and Risnata.

Please have the https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/post-secondary-education-for-girls-in-burkina-faso webpage open and ready to go at 9am EDT (6am PDT) tomorrow. And then, please give as generously as you can. Help us continue to make a lasting impact in the lives of young women in northern Burkina Faso!

In their “small but noble words” THANK YOU! Thank you in advance for helping us to make the best use of this year’s Bonus Day on GlobalGiving! And please spread the word wide and far!