NEIA (Sustainable Develop­ment in Afri­ca) was foun­ded in 2006 and has been sup­por­ting pro­jects for wo­men and chil­dren ever since. In 2018, the as­so­cia­tion open­ed the first kin­der­gar­ten in Dé­dou­gou (Bur­kina Fa­so), fol­lo­wed by an ele­men­ta­ry school in 2018 and a voca­tion­al school in 2022. Cur­rently, 600 chil­dren are taught and pro­vi­ded with a meal at the school.

 

Half of the students are dis­pla­ced people who have had to leave their vil­la­ges due to ter­rorism. Their pa­rents have poor le­­vels of edu­­ca­t­ion and are there­fore un­able to help their chil­dren wit the school home­work. For these pupils, a library is now to be built that will also be open to other chil­dren in the neigh­bor­hood. In­ter­ac­ting with books helps them to dis­cov­er the joy of rea­ding, acquire know­ledge from litera­ture and im­prove their French.

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The library con­sists of a rea­ding room and a com­puter room. In ad­di­tion to the con­struc­tion, our sup­port also in­clu­des the fur­nish­ing and in­i­tial equip­ment as well as the first-time im­ple­men­tat­ion by a li­bra­rian.