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Sunshine Project Burkina! English books for girls

Sunshine Project Burkina! provides English books and materials to young girls in Africa

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Sunshine Project Burkina! English books for girls

Sunshine Project Burkina! English books for girls

Sunshine Project Burkina! English books for girls

Sunshine Project Burkina! English books for girls

Sunshine Project Burkina! English books for girls

Sunshine Project Burkina! provides English books and materials to young girls in Africa

Sunshine Project Burkina! provides English books and materials to young girls in Africa

Sunshine Project Burkina! provides English books and materials to young girls in Africa

Sunshine Project Burkina! provides English books and materials to young girls in Africa

hanna williams
hanna williams
hanna williams
hanna williams
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Munich, Germany
$1,437 USD $1,437 USD 21 backers
69% of $2,082 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Hello Everyone! I am part of the TuaRes team. TuaRes endeavors to promote education among girls in Burkina Faso constructing a solid support network for children and their families. 

In this context we are launching our Sunshine Project! for English learning. In French speaking Burkina Faso, knowledge of English will provide girls with an invaluable skill that will significantly increase their future job opportunities. Indeed, the ability to speak English proficiently is rare and sought after.

Learning English will also strengthen girls' confidence and for this reason we speak of The Sunshine Project! It owes its name to our belief that education will brighten the minds and lives of young girls giving them the tools to create a better future. 


Girls' Education in Burkina Faso



In Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world, only 42% of girls finish elementary school and female literacy stands at just 33.1%. The reasons are both economic and cultural. Household and family conditions are tough as girls have to perform lengthy daily chores at home during the school week. In addition, many girls must face challenges such as early pregnancies, forced marriage, child abuse and child labor, health problems, particularly eye sight problems, and limited access to health care.

The challenges to female education are linked to poverty as well as to attitudes and practices rooted in patriarchal traditions and social norms. From an early age, girls are taught that they have different roles and responsibilities from boys and that their priority is to attend to household duties. Such a projection of gender-restrictive roles is reinforced by their extended family, their school, their church or mosque, their wider community and the media. In poor rural communities, many girls go from being economically dependent on their fathers, to being economically dependent on their husbands. Even in the case of orphanage, the girls’ guardians will try to secure a profitable marriage as soon as possible to “guarantee that she has a future”. 

Unfortunately, it is still rare for education to be associated with a girl’s ability to get herself and her family out of the poverty cycle. Most parents and guardians are simply not aware that educating their girls can create benefits, also for them. 


The benefits of education


Girl education is not only a fundamental human right and also the most crucial means to fulfilling other development objectives. It changes the lives of vulnerable girls, empowers them and gives them a chance to take responsibility for their own future. The benefits of education include a higher income, a lower likelihood of contracting HIV/AIDS and raising healthier children. 

higher income

o  critical skills and tools learnt in school help girls better provide for themselves and for their children

o  for every additional year of primary school, a girls’ eventual wages increase by 10 to 20 %, and with an extra year of secondary school by 15 to 25%[1]

o  an educated mother will reinvest most of her income in her family’s wellbeing

o  an educated female population increases their country's overall productivity and enhances national economic growth

less likely to become HIV-positive

o  women with post-primary education are 5 times more likely than illiterate women to be educated on the topic of HIV and AIDS[2]

o  educated girls are more likely to know that HIV can be transmitted by breastfeeding and that the risk of mother to child transmission can be reduced by taking drugs during pregnancy

o knowing about condoms can reduce the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and helps to decrease the spread of the virus by promoting safer sex practices

marry later and give birth in health facilities[3]

o  staying in school helps girls marry, and have children at a later age

o  staying in school helps to diminish teen pregnancy (being born to a mother under 18 increases the risk of infant mortality by 60%)

o  in Burkina Faso, mothers with secondary education are 50% more likely to give birth in health facilities

healthier children[4]

o  education gives women more control over how many children they have

o  a child whose mother can read is twice as likely to live past age 5

o  an extra year of female schooling reduces fertility rates by 10%

protect her children from illegal practices and promote education

o  educating girls would help child marriage fall by 14%[5]

o  an educated mother will more likely protect her daughter against female genital mutilation

o  once a mother, an educated girl will actively promote her children’s schooling

+  general health and well-being in her family will improve

o  education increases access to treatment and helps combat stigma

o  children of educated mothers are more likely to be vaccinated and less likely to be stunted because of malnourishment

Giving girls access to quality education creates a positive spillover dynamic that has the power of changing not only that one girl’s future, but also the future of her children and of her grandchildren. It can break the vicious cycle trapping girls in a voiceless and powerless life. 


How your donation will help



All funds raised will go towards materials for English classes, namely books. We aspire to provide each young student with their own textbook, workbook and necessary learning materials.The amount required has been calculated to meet the needs of sixty girls, which will be divided into three lesson groups. These girls will be the first to participate in the Sunshine Project! for English learning.

Please help fund the Sunshine Project Burkina! and support it by spreading the campaign. Speak with friends and family and share it on social media. You can use the Indiegogo share tools as well. Every action makes a difference.

Thank you!


Other ways to donate!!

You can also donate directly on the TuaRes organisation website following this link: http://www.tuares.org/en/donate.html   

TuaRes has been furthering education and supporting school girls since 2012 and keeps increasing the breadth of its initiatives to make an ever greater impact. To see all the activities of the Foundation as well as its history and mission statement visit the website: www.tuares.org. We are happy to answer any question you may have - just write!


[1]UNICEF Press Center, Available from: http://www.unicef.org/media/media_58417.html

[2]UNESCO, Education counts towards the Millennium Development Goals, 2011. Available from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001902/19...

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[5] Global Partnership for Education. Available from: http://www.globalpartnership.org/news/global-pa...







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