Empower girls in Niger for change via education

Life is tough for poor girls in Niamey. Because of culture and tradition, they are regarded as second-class citizens. And often they cannot continue their studies after primary school as their parents cannot afford uniforms or supplies. Poor girls rarely get the support they need to continue through middle and high school.

 Hampaté Bâ School holds tremendous promise for underprivileged adolescent girls and their futures. When school is safe, affordable, accessible and relevant, parents are more likely to keep their daughters in school rather than marrying them early. Through school, girls can acquire life skills that will help them delay marriage and pregnancy, and break the cycle of poverty.

 Les Amis de Hampaté Bâ flagship funding program provides support to girls from the start of middle school to completion. The scholarship scheme targets disadvantaged girls with a high risk of dropping out. The support covers school fees, uniforms, school equipment and nutritious school meals. We give our girls the opportunity to complete a full cycle of middle and secondary school, which is a seven-year period in Niger.

You can help us turn disadvantaged young girls into young change agents who have the power to inspire and mobilize others for positive action. They can encourage the questioning of traditions and beliefs that limit lives and choices, and build better lives for themselves, their families and their communities.

The benefits of educating girls and young women in Niger are immense. Girls who go to school and stay in school are able to find jobs, and they spend most of their incomes on their families. They marry later and have fewer and healthier children.

 “My father was not opposed to educating girls, but he did not have the means to send me to middle school. So he wanted to marry me off. Thanks to the scholarship I have now, my father brags about his educated daughter,” says Anissa who will hopefully graduate from high school this year.

Big or small, all your donations are crucial to helping these girls out and breaking the poverty cycle. Please consider supporting them. We need your help to give them an education and realize their dreams.

Your generous donations finance scholarships for these underprivileged girls and give them a chance to go to school, stay in school and get a quality education. Your donations will also save them from early marriages by giving them the opportunity to learn and realize that they have the potential to succeed professionally as women

We need you! Bring a smile to these girls’ faces. Be the difference ! It’s the time to give a gift, the precious gift of education!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!