Four New Primary School Classrooms 2022

With the increase in terrorist activity in 2022, over a million villagers fled their homes in northern and eastern Burkina Faso and migrated to towns for safety.  Over 3,000 are in camps in Ouahigouya.  International organizations and the government of Burkina Faso are doing their best to respond to this humanitarian crisis.  It is also an educational crisis for the children in the camps who had been attending school in their villages prior to the attacks and subsequent mass migration.  Given the commitment of the Directeur Régional de l’Education Primaire du Nord to get 1224 primary school children living in camps in and around Ouahigouya back in school, one primary school has class sizes of 154-290 students. 

Global NEEED gave over seven classrooms at the Lycee Moderne de l’Amitie for 280 primary school students and their teachers.  Burkina Faso Girls’ Education Fund funded the construction of an additional four classrooms to the overcrowded primary school.  Funds were wired to NEEED at the end of November 2022.  By February 15, 2023, NEEED in collaboration with the Directeur Régional de l’Education Primaire du Nord had selected an appropriate site, classrooms were built and classes began: 2.5 months from start to finish!  Because the Government of Burkina Faso has a model for the construction of primary schools, neither time nor other resources are wasted.