Send 120 poor children to attend nursery school

ASAP is supporting 7 nursery schools for school year 2023-2024.

 We could not opened the schools in Fina and in Nefrelaye.

In Fina part of the population have left the village due to threats from terrorists. The primamry school is also closed. Based on information we have there might be a chance to have the schools reopened in Janaury 2024.

In Nefrelaye all the villagers have been displaced also due to terrorism. A large percentage of them have settled in the village of Tolotama. It is unclear when the population will be able to go back. Both primary and nursery schools are closed. We are looking at the possibility to open a temporary nursery school in the village of Tolotama.

We know that education is the main tool for development, the fact that those schools are closed is very sad.

However we have been able to open a new nursery school in the village of Sipigui. In the 5 schools opened there are 261 pupils from which 56% are girls.

We sincerely hope that in our next report we will be able to inform you that all the 7 schools are opened.

Your support is very important, not only your donations but also the good word you can pass to your network about this project.

Thank you.

End of May was the end of the school year 2022-2023 for 3 of our nursery schools.

For 2 others (village of Nefrelaye and Fina) it was an abrupt end mid May.

Mid May, terrorists came to the village of Nefrelaye and told everybody to leave their house. We immediatly close the nursery school. We do not know if and when the villagers will be able to go back home. So far it seems that all infrastructures of this village are still intact. 

In the village of Fina which is not too far from Nefrelaye, we closed the school mid May also even if the villagers on a preventive measure. The terrorists did not came to this village.

We sincerely hope that we will be able to reopened both schools beginning of October.

This is a very sad situation, but we can only keep helping the children where we can. 

The building of the new nursery school of the village of Sipigui should be completed by end of August and will opened with children beginning of October. A director for this school has been recruited and 2 women from the village are in training to support this director.

To try to combat the terrorists, we need to be able to offer education to the children.

Thank you very much for your support,