With the support of NEIA e.V. , Fan­ta Yan­na (who comes from De­dou­gou in Bur­kina Fa­so and stu­died in Ger­many) ren­ted a room on site in 2016 where chil­dren from ill­iter­ate fa­mi­lies re­cei­ved tu­tor­ing.  Fol­low­ing a kin­der­gar­ten, a pri­mary school was open­ed in 2018 and a vo­ca­tio­nal school in 2022. We have al­ready supported the con­struc­tion and equip­ment of the school li­brary.

In 2025, the vocational school will be ex­pan­ded to cre­ate a car­pen­try trai­ning work­shop. The con­struc­tion of the buil­ding has been com­plet­ed and a solar po­wer sys­tem is in place to po­wer the car­pen­try work­shop. This time, the foun­dation is fun­ding the equip­ment of the train­ing work­shop with the ne­ces­sary car­pen­try ma­chi­nes and tools. 

The vocational school in De­dou­gou is one of the few ad­vanc­ed train­ing pro­gram­mes avai­lable to young people. With this unique ap­pren­tice­ship in the city, they have very good job op­por­tuni­ties after gra­dua­tion. This gives them pers­pec­tives and keeps them from crime or emi­gra­tion. Every year, 30 young people are ex­pec­ted to re­ceive their state-cer­tified de­gree.