Help 80 Secondary Pupils in Niger Read and Write

Reading failure begins early, takes root quickly, and affects students for life.

Two years ago, Sani and Bouba "graduated" from a state primary school barely knowing how to read and write!!

Today, with the help of the remedial program at the Hampaté Bâ Middle School, they are quickly improving their reading and writing skills. Thanks to that push from the school, they are rising to the challenge and gaining more and more confidence in themselves. “My Social Studies teacher says that he sees something in me,” Bouba says. “He often tells me, ‘I know there’s something inside you that wants to fight and succeed.’”

As for Sani, you can tell he is sharp from the way he analyses his difficulties at school. “In primary school, I avoided reading because reading was very frustrating for me. Now, it is easier for me to study because I can read better.”

“Therein lies the most challenging aspect of teaching older students: they cannot read so they do not like to read; and, because they have not read much, their comprehension skills decline and they also become poor spellers and poor writers, " says Mr Hassane Moussa Baro, the school principal.

Your donations help us provide remedial instruction in order to close the gap between poor readers and their grade-level peers as quickly as possible. Reading intervention imparts to secondary students the skills they missed in primary grades and can bring them to grade level in one to two years.

Please contribute and help these students stay in school. Your donation can make the difference of them dropping out or getting up to par.

Help us to help them ! THANK YOU.!