School Lunch Program

fbf — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:31:48 +0000

School Lunch Program fbf Fri, 02/27/2015 - 07:31

NEEED, Ouahigouya, girls, primary school

Primary school graduates of the Lambs for School project are able to extend their education by attending the Lycée Moderne de l’Amitié (LMA), a combined middle-secondary school near Ouahigouya. These girls walk, on average, six kilometers every day to attend class. From 2007-2012, FBF support provided noon-day meals for students who came from distant villages and stayed in Ouahigouya. Their parents were unable to provide lunches for their daughters and these girls had no other source of food to sustain them throughout the day. In 2012, another LMA partner in Europe provided essential financing for this project. However, this partner had to withdrew its support for this project in 2015 due to financial constraints. Thereafter, FBF reactivated the noon-day-meals project in an attempt to help fill the funding gap.

Classrooms for the Lycée Modern de l’Amitié in Yatenga

fbf — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:28:53 +0000

Classrooms for the Lycée Modern de l’Amitié in Yatenga fbf Fri, 02/27/2015 - 07:28

NEEED, Ouahigouya, Yatenga, girls, primary school

As girls began graduating in increasing numbers from village primary schools in the Yatenga Province, Association NEEED saw the need to build a middle school. It appealed and secured funding from foreign donors, including the Friends of Burkina Faso, to pay the construction costs for building classrooms for its middle school, called the Lycée Moderne de l’Amitié (LMA), located just outside of Ouahigouya. In 2005, LMA enrolled its first students, thanks to the support of donors in the U.S. and in Germany. With a growing student population, NEEED appealed to donors several years later. Shortly thereafter, LMA received funding to double the number of classrooms to twelve. Today, in 2015, 685 students are attending this thriving, now combined middle-secondary school.