During the second term of the 2015/2016 academic year, students at Bitame Lucia International School participated in and enjoyed many activities and celebrations.

In Cameroon, the entire nation annually celebrates National Youth Day mobilizing the next generation of leaders. This celebration instills them with pride and the knowledge that their uniqueness plays an important role for their future advancement.

We are so very thankful for you and your support.  We have been very busy preparing and getting ready to install the solar system the well. In the course of the past month, we have made tremendous progress as follows.  These steps were taken to ensure we make the best use of funds and arrive at optimal results.

Your support provided a net for an old woman called Ena Marie.  She tells us in this video in Limba (one of the local languages in Sierra Leone) how the net has helped her.  Watch the video https://youtu.be/T0JnMOQ_umU.

Ena Marie says in the video:

Our trainees are steadily learning - thanks to YOUR support!  Your gracious support is helping to provide the supplies that they need.  Your support is also helping to pay instructors' salaries.  You are helping to make a huge difference in their lives.

Congratulations!  We have together helped to provide training for girls since November 2011.  This means 4 different set of graduates have benefited from this technology initiative.

The girls have learned a variety of tasks including the following:

•     Computer components / system basics
•     Word processing and text formatting
•     Researching online
•     Making identity cards

According to theguardian - "...an estimated 58 million of primary aged children are still out of school, 31 million of them girls, the majority living in sub-Saharan Africa. Gender disparities increased in secondary and tertiary education, despite more young people enrolling over the past 20 years." ~ Two-thirds of world's illiterate adults are women, report finds