The school year 2022-2023 ended in June.
4th year Students results for the exam BEPC was average with 63% success rate. For the 6th year students they had a 88% success rate at their BEP Agricole exam. As for the 8yh year students they had 100% success at their BAC PRO Agricole. This is the second year in a row where all students got their diploma. Congratulations to them and the LAP personnel.
Two of those last year students had the best average in Burkina for this type of exam. They have been received by the President of Burkina and got gifts.
On another front all students of the 7th year but one got their driving license.
The month of July and August are part of the rainy season. We are cultivating the 10 Ha fields at the LAP with mainly corn and beans.
The school will opened again on September 17th 2023.
Thank you for all the support you bring to our students.
We are getting close to the end of the school year 202-2023.
The first exam for the 4th and 6th year students will start June 1st.
In the mean time thanks to the Dutch Koppert Foundation we have been able to built a compost making unit.
Using straw, harvest waste for dry matters, manure and burkina Phospate we are able to produce batches of compost in 3 months. If we have the needed material we can produce up to 8 batches in a year.
The first batch was started end of April and will be ready end of June. The weight of this batch will be around 3.000 kg of compost. This is good for one Ha of land.
We will have to wait the month of October to start a new batch because of the rainy season starting in June.
Besides the production of compost, we want to show the students that harvest waste and manure have a value.
Compost is a better alternative to inogarnic fertilizer in term of pollution and costs.
Thank younto the Koppert foundation and to you to support our students.
Students of the first cycle (first 4 years) got their first report cards. Report cards of the secons cycle students (last 4 years) will come in February.
The first 2 years results are rather good with very few stduents under the average grade.
The 3rd year results however were lower than expected. This was surprinsing when we look at the results of this class last school year. We are looking at the reason(s) of this situation.
The 4th year students will pass the national exam (BEPC) at the end of this school year. Teachers have the tendency to be very hard in grading the students. Teachers beleive that xthis is a motivation for the students to work harder! We have been tryng to change this mentality since the creation of the LAP. Unfortunatly we have not yet convinced them that positive motivation is better than negative motivation.
The permanent staff is living on the LAP site. In order to help them, a refectory was built for them where they they can take their meals and watch television.
On the security side, the villages around the location of the LAP are calm. However we are preparing a security plan and increase our contacts wilth local authorities.
Thank you for your support.
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Despite the strange political situation in Burkina Faso, the LAP has started a new school year with 310 students on September 19th 2022. This year we have more boys than girls: 156 boys for 146 girls.
There are 55 students in the first year. They are coming from different villages. During the first 2 weeks an animator will do some games / activities with those new students in order to create unify group.
We sincerely hope to have as good results than last year at the national exams.
The LAP was opened in 2011, but it is still in development.
We have secure funding for a compost production unit and for equipment for mecanisation of the work in the fields.
The compost production will help us have better input for our field. We are planning to sell part of the production to generate income for the LAP.
The equipment for mecanisation will be used for training purpose but also to have a more efficient way to work the field than just using manpower.
We are still looking for funding to build a laboratory and for fish farming.
We have made a short film about the LAP which link is with this report. Hope you will watch it and enjoy it.
Thank you for any comments or questions and thank you for your help.
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Fantastic results for our last year studenst who all succeeded to pass their "Baccalaureat Professionel Agricole". Congratulations to them.
In addition the best student at this exam in Burkina Faso was one of our student Alimatou Sangaré. She was received by the President of Burkina Faso and received a laptop and some cash. We are very proud of her.
Now those students have to find a way to either continue studuying at university or start their own activity. This last option is difficult since it requires start up funding which the parents do not have and which the banks will not lent since they do not have any guarantee.
We are helping them go through the orientation process, given them the contacts of the universities which can take them and the process to get scholarships.
We will keep track of this first group of students coming out of the LAP and let you know what they are becoming.
This year we will have 20 students than last year. Your help and may be your friends help is extremly important.
Thank you for your continuous support.
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