Our Partner
We partner with Global NEEED (Nimbus, Enfance, Environnement, Education et Développement) Burkina, a local non-governmental organization in northern Burkina Faso which has a remarkable history of supporting girls’ education in the region. At left: Lacine Sawadogo, Program Coordinator.
NEEED was created in 1999 with the goal of improving the lives of rural populations in the region.
In 1999, NEEED initiated the Lambs Support Girls’ Education Project (Projet Mouton Ecole) which provided villagers a self-sustaining strategy for sending their daughters to primary school and for taking responsibility, along with their daughters, for their daughters’ education. Based on donations, NEEED provided families a lamb and school materials for a young girl’s first year of school. The girls and parents had to care for the lambs and sell them a year later, using the funds to buy school materials for the next year and another lamb. Through this strategy, an $80 donation enabled a young girl to go all the way through secondary school and often enabled parents to support younger daughters as the ewes often had lambs prior to being sold at the end of the year. In 2022, this project met its goal of introducing to all 477 interested villages in the region this self-help strategy to supporting their daughters’ educations, and enabled the entry into primary school of 19,801 village girls.
In 2005, as village girls began completing primary school, NEEED solicited funding to build a middle/secondary school (Lycee Moderne de l’Amitie) to ensure the maximum number of village girls an adequate middle/secondary school education. In the past six years, over 90% of LMA students have passed national exams compared to 57% of students attending other middle/secondary schools in the region.
In 2010, to enable girls completing secondary school to pursue further training/education, NEEED initiated the Postsecondary Education/Training Project (Projet Formation Professionnelle et Emploi) to provide scholarships for in-country university educations, and nursing, midwifery and primary school teacher training. To date, 98% of scholarship recipients have succeeded in their training/educations and are employed.
In the past 15 years, NEEED has secured donations and built three additional middle/secondary schools throughout the region in order to improve access to education in distant villages, and 17 village primary schools in order to provide a durable and safe environment for the primary school education of village children. Priorities have been determined in collaboration with the government and NEEED has turned these schools over to the government.
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Our Supporters
Our supporters are individuals like YOU who believe in the value of girls’/women’s education and who wish to support the education of village girls and young women in northern Burkina Faso.