Conclusion of the BMZ and SEZ projects with the completion of the cafeteria, and the building of the school with six classrooms, three buildings housing toilet facilities, and the purchase of text books for the secondary school. A delegation in 2017 will verify everything and collect all invoices and receipts, in order to finalize the accounts.

Thanks to Bettina’s donation campaign we were able to purchase 150 impregnated mosquito nets (at 3,50.– € eachand send them to Fodécariah, where our 38 sponsored girls will each receive one net free of charge. 20 nets are to be reserved for the next batch of girls, whom we plan to support. Project leader, Mamadi Kaba, and Candia Doumbouya, who look after our girls, should also receive nets for their own use and the use of their families. The rest of the nets should be distributed (at a cost of 1 EUR per net) to women who are pregnant or have young children.

Like every year since 2012, we inform Mamadi Kaba at the end of September how much donation money has been collected and, as a result, how many young girls we can guarantee a ten-year-long education. This year, we can add 10 more girls to the support program. Since we had approximately 100 applicants, we used a lottery system to choose the 10 new girls. The lottery was carried out at the beginning of October in Fodécariah during a specially arranged meeting.

Our cafeteria will be subsidized by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), which will provide us with a regular supply of food and pay for a week-long course for seven cooks.

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that 37 boys and girls passed their secondary-school exams, despite the fact that the school buildings were not all finished and some text books were not available.