School for girls<\/h5>

Katia Van Weel \/ Burkina Faso<\/p>\n<\/div>

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• Burkina Faso<\/li>\n
• Improve access to schooling<\/li>\n
• Creation of schools<\/li>\n
• Girls between 6 – 18 years old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>
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  6<\/span><\/strong>

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  2<\/span>\u2019<\/span>500<\/span><\/strong>

  pupils schooled in 2018 – 2019<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
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  72<\/span>%<\/span><\/strong>

  success rate in the last year of schooling<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>
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  Burkina Faso, a French-speaking country in West Africa, is one of the 10 least\u00a0developed countries in the world. Low school enrolment rate remains a very big\u00a0problem (more than a million children aged 6 to 11 remain out of the system)\u00a0and the majority of students are boys. Girls therefore suffer particularly from a\u00a0high rate of illiteracy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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  The action of the Katia van Weel foundation in favor of the education of young\u00a0girls in Burkina Faso began in 1995, when its foundation obtained CHF 15’000.-\u00a0by participating in the TSR program “the dream of your 20 years”. Her idea was\u00a0to build a school for girls only without hope of going to school.<\/p>\n

  Twenty years later, the foundation has 6 schools across the country!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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