By Paula Al-Saihati | Project Director
We are so pleased to inform you that 23 of the 30 children from last year returned for a second year of school.
There has been considerable unrest in Mali and some people have moved away from the Faladji Camp in Bamako, so the fact that we have 23 remaining students in school makes us very happy. As of this date the children are attending regularly and doing well. In fact, one child that had moved away insisted on coming back to school and arrangements have been made to accommodate this child and the principal has allowed her to reenter.
Even though this is a public school, there are expenses for each child. New children need birth certificates, school fees are required, books and school supplies. This year the children are required to wear school uniforms. Arts to End Genocide has paid for all of this as well as continue the Skills Training for many of the women in the Camp. We continue to pay for doctors, medicine and to provide rice for each family.
“Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated ……………..it is the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person’s God-given potential.”
Condoleeza Rice
(former United States Secretary of State)
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