EMPOWER VILLAGE WOMEN FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

HELP COMBAT POVERTY AND EXCLUSION

  • The education of village girls in Burkina Faso transforms the lives of multiple generations of girls, women and families to come.

  • "The eleven scholarship recipients in the 2019-2022 midwifery training class have passed final exams and graduated."

  • "The six midwifery students with scholarships from the 2020-2023 class have passed their second year exams."

  • "This year, 68.11% of middle school students at the LMA passed national exams, qualifying them to continue on to secondary school."

  • "This past year, 89.46% of secondary school girls at the Lycee Moderne de l’Amitie passed exams to receive the BAC (high school diploma)."

Burkina Faso Girls’ Education Fund is a 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization (EIN 85-3020769). Our mission is to support the education of village girls and young women in northern Burkina Faso.  Support includes:

  • Scholarships for postsecondary education/training (in-country university educations, midwifery and nursing training and primary school teacher training);

  • Support for lunches for village girls at a secondary school; and

  • Construction of village primary schools.

The management and implementation of these activities is carried out by Global NEEED (Nimbus Enfance Environnement Education et Developpement) Burkina, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization registered with the Government of Burkina Faso. 

The education of girls and women in Burkina Faso is fundamental to combatting poverty and exclusion which impacts negatively each generation of children. The participation of women in decision making at all levels of society is crucial for sustainable socio-economic development.

Numerous development agencies have identified girls’ education as key to sustainable development and the most influential factor in improving child health and reducing infant mortality. Girls’ education programs are most sustainable when they are ‘owned’ by the country’s citizens, not by the donors, and when donor resources are used to mobilize the human and financial resources of a country in support of girls’ education. When citizens ‘own’ the issue of girls’ education, they become engaged in, and committed to, increasing girls’ educational opportunities.

World leaders recognize the need for girls’ education in developing countries.

  • If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

    Desmond Tutu

  • There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls.

    Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary General

  • On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

    President Barak Obama

  • No society can achieve its potential with half of its population marginalized and disempowered.

    Melinda Gates

  • Education is the basic human right of every girl. Once you educate girls, you change the whole community, you change the whole society.

    Malala Yousafzai, 2017 UN Messenger of Peace