Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso

Summary

The project pays for a noon meal for girls who attend a girls' middle school and whose parents cannot afford school. Girls walk 6 km to and from school and have no other source of food during the day. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

For the 2008-09 school year, Friends of Burkina Faso will support noon meals for about 500 students of the College Modern de l'Amitie, at a cost of $.40/day/student. A noon meal is essential to students' learning, particularly as they have little or no breakfast and walk 6 km in the heat to and from school. In the 2007-08 school year, the noon meal contributed to an impressive 81% of students completing coursework successfully.

Activities

Three local women prepare a common noon meal of rice and sauce for the students, enhancing students capacity to learn and succeed in their education.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £100,587
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £0
Total Funding Goal: £89,085

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to participate fully in the development process. Access to food will increase students' ability to succeed in their studies

Project Message

"You can provide [sic] schools, but children will not learn if they are hungry."
- "Foreign Aid," The Economist, April 1, 2006

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Suzanne Plopper,
Project Manager, Girls' Education Project
P.O. Box 395
Chester, CA 96020
United States
530-284-7414
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Organisation

Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF)
P.O. Box 395
Chester, CA 96020
United States
530-284-7414
http://fbf.tamu.edu

Learn more about Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF) and the project team.

Friends of Burkina Faso (FBF)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Burkina Faso and can also be found under Children.

For more information about Burkina Faso, read the Human Development Report on Burkina Faso or the Wikipedia entry for Burkina Faso.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 23, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 15, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Middle/secondary school plans expansion

By Suzanne Plopper - Project Manager, January 23, 2012 03:40 PM

During my visit to Burkina Faso in December, I met with administrators, teachers and students of the middle/secondary school for girls. I continue to be impressed with the organization, discipline and seriousness with which everyone views this school in terms of the quality of education it offers to its students. Because of its very positive reputation, there is increasing competition for students to be enrolled there. With 850 students this year, NEEED hopes to add additional classrooms to accomodate a maximum of 1000 students. This will necessitate expansion of the cafeteria as well.

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