Meet Bernadette, a Batonga Scholar from Benin
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 - 09:50:58 AMA few years ago, Bernadette’s family rarely had enough food to feed the entire family. Bernadette’s parents could not afford school fees or the cost of necessary school supplies, so they sent her to stay with her aunt who could better support her. Things did not work out and Bernadette returned to her family. At that point, the mother’s association, a community organization dedicated to improving the quality of education and raising the status of girls and women, intervened and convinced Bernadette’s parents to make sacrifices and to send Bernadette to school. Soon after enrolling, Bernadette was selected to receive a scholarship. Bernadette says, “I am very happy because now I go to school and have enough to eat. If I go to school, I can learn.”
