Send 120 poor children to attend nursery school

Beginning of October 2018, the new school year has started in the 5 nursery schools we are supporting.

The rainy season this year went on longer than usual. Since young children stay generally with the parents in the fields, it is only at the end of October that we could look at the number of children for this new school year.

                            2017-2018                          2018-2019

Village                 Girls     Boys   Total           Girls       Boys  Total

Fina                       25        41      66                34         30       64

Kofila                     28         28     56                30         41       71

Kouekouesso        29         29     58                28         20       48

Oualana                25         30     55                26         28       54

Nefrelaye              19         22     41                30         25       55

Total                    126      150    276              148       144     292

We can see in most school an increase of a stable number of students per school. Only in Kouekouesso there is a decrease of the number of children attending the school. We will have a meeting with the leaders of the villages to discuss the issue.

We can also see an increase of the number of girls.

At the beginning of this school year we have renewed some of the equipment of the nursery school. Some toys are coming also in a container we had sent beginning of September from The Netherlands.

We have planning to open another nursery school next year.

We need your support to help poor children attend those schools. Early learning is essential for a proper development of a child.

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Beginning of July 2018 it was the end of the school year in the 5 rural nursery schools which we are supporting.

There was 262 children in the nursery schools. Beginning of October all those children will attend primary school.

Each school organise a "closing day" where parents can see the progress of their children.

Comment of one father: " I am very proud of my daugher. She speaks well French, even better than his brother who has already spent 2 years in primary school. Also she is very clean, each day she is asking to wash herself before she goes to school".

At those closing ceremony the teachers of the primary school are also there. Comment from one teacher:" The nursery school is facilitating our work. Pupils who have attended the nursery school have learned some basic reading in French, writing but also how to behave in group."

A small video has been made of the closing day in the nursery school of Fina.

It is very important that we can still support the funding of the structural costs of those nursery schools. 

Thank you to inform friends and family about this projects. We need your help.

Links:

• Closing day school year 2017-2018 nursery school Fina