Transform Girls' Education With Technical School

This past March, I was so thrilled to walk down the road that your donations helped build in 2015. I witnessed first hand the magical transformation it brought to the Aumazo school project and the village as a whole. The trail that links the school site to the village has become a road. In addition, the access road to the school that disintegrated into a sea of mud during the long local rainy season and became impassable to all automobiles, trucks and people, is now gone. The “road to change” is really here.

The move resulted from the support friends like you have given Aumazo for the last 11 years. The positive impact that a small road improvement activity has had on the Aumazo school project and the people of Bankondji is very impressive. It allows us to explore new opportunities and enhance our creativity and innovation in ways that ultimately benefit Aumazo through new motivation and increased commitment to our program and its constituents. Thus, we are capitalizing on this momentum and will launch the Tutoring Program this August 2016.

During my stay in Cameroon, I met and introduced the Tutoring Program to few students and their parents. They were all bubbling with exuberance. Marie Justine, a 15-year-old 8^th grade girl made comments that captivated me and made it very difficult to me to forgo the promise to bring this program to them. She said: “I always wanted to go to school to learn and boost my intelligence. I do not want to remain as stupid as many of my peers. That dream will finally come true with the “Tutoring Program”.”

Her words rang home. Many 7^th and 8^th graders in rural communities cannot understand grade-level texts in reading comprehension, math and other subjects. Therefore, they cannot pass the complex high school entrance exam required to enroll in Cameroonian high schools. We plan to tutor 80 girls up to grade-level in their classroom setting by using the Peer-to Peer Tutoring Method.

An expert educator is traveling with me to Cameroon in August to train local teachers we’ve already hired. During the tutoring sessions, the trained teachers will provide expertise, experience and encouragement to help the girls improve their learning skills. We are confident that by improving the girls' ability to comprehend texts in reading comprehension, math and other subjects, positive changes will happen.

We are convinced that these girls will stay engaged and achieve success rapidly. Therefore, we could anticipate at least an 80 percent success rate in the high school entrance exam as opposed to the current 17 percent among rural girls. Moreover, the success of the Aumazo school to reach its potential will depend greatly on how these students thrive in school.

We still cannot do this without your help. Your continued support will allow us to bring the Tutoring Program to Marie Justine and 79 other girls in Bankondji during August 2016 and throughout the school year 2016-2017. We could thus change the course of their educational lives.

To achieve this new annual goal, we setup a microproject https://goto.gg/24290 to raise an additional $30,000 starting with $10,000 by August 2016. 

The “road” was a change we could afford. Together again, we can help Marie Justine “learn to boost her intelligence” and many other girls in Bankondji move forward by bringing the Tutoring Program to them.

Aumazo is climbing up the achiever ladder because of its partnership with you.

We thank you for all that you do to lead us to success.

Sincerely,

~Jacqueline Audige and the Board

Links:

• Follow up-to-date progress on our page