Send a poor child to an agricultural school

June 1oth was the last day of school for the students not in a class exam. We had to shorten of 3 weeks the time those students should have been in school due to the difficulty to get zthe schol fees from the parents.

It does not affect their learning time since the lectures were stopped at the end of May.

We do have some results for 2 of the exams:

- out of 47 students of the 4th year, 34 passed the exam BEPC (72%)

- out of 27 students of the 6th year, 24 passed the exam BEP Agricole (89%)

These are rather good results even so we always expect better...

The students of the 8th year are just passing their exam right now. The results in the next report. The challenge for those students will be to find their way after 8th year under the wings of the LAP.

During the vacation, students are going back to help their families in the fields. For the 5th year and the 7th year they have to make a 2,5 months interneship.

Students of the 7th year also passed their driving licence and 21 out 22 passed it.

We are now preparing the next school year. Test of entry for the first year will be done on August 8th and on September 15th for the 6th year.

We thank you for your continuous support and hope that you can get people around you helping the students to get a good and adapted education.

Since the last report, students got their first grades. In the firts class, 85% of the students have  agrade above average, 91% in the second year, 91% in the 3rd year and 60% in the 4th year.

Those results are rather good, specially for the first year. New students have to adapt to multiple teachers and to a boarding school environment.

Price of food has increased a lot. Costs of the food for the students has increased 30% in one year. Also parents who are supposed to pay part of the tuition in corn have difficulty to do so. This creates problem to balance our budget. We have already changed the menu in decreasing the number of corn based meals and we will have to send the students back home as soon as the exams are done. We normally keep them one month after the exam to help us cultivate the fields of the LAP and get some computer training.

The gardens are helping us get part of the vegetable for the cooking, but there are more than 300 students at the LAP. We can not produce enough for all the meals.

In order to decrease the use of mais, we have chnaged the breakfast from a maize porridge to a "fonio" (Digitaria exilis) porridge.

 We appreciate your support to this project. Please communicate to your network about it, we really need more support.

Thank you.