A Proud Moment

I got such a nice phone call the other day, while I was in Thies to help out with the new volunteers' in-service training. All five of the girls from my girls' group who took the rigorous standardized test to exit middle school and enter high school passed! That is an amazing accomplishment for all of them, since the pass rate in Barkedji is generally only between 30 and 50%. At some middle schools in Senegal, only one or two students pass each year.

The girls are such sweet, funny, motivated and inspirational people, and I am so proud of them.

Congratulations, Deyssi Diagne, Coumba Diagne, Coumba Gueye, Boury Gadji and Sadio Ba!