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Supporting Education for Girls in Africa

Batonga is giving girls a secondary school and higher education so they can take the lead in changing Africa. We are doing this by granting scholarships, building secondary schools, increasing enrollment, improving teaching standards, providing school supplies, supporting mentor programs, exploring alternative education models and advocating for community awareness of the value of education for girls.

World Education is an implementing partner of Batonga. Visit World Education's website to learn more about their Girls' and Women's Education Initiative.

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There is a growing consensus that the most cost effective way to help African nations reduce poverty and improve the quality of life for their citizens is to support education for girls. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan summed it up when he said, “To educate girls is to reduce poverty.”

When a woman is educated, it changes not only her life but those of her children and her family. Educating women translates to higher economic productivity, reduced child mortality, improved family nutrition and health, and increased prevention of HIV/AIDS. It greatly increases the chances of education for the next generation—for both boys and girls.

West African singer, songwriter and UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo made up the word “batonga.” At a time when education for girls was not socially acceptable in her native country of Benin, Angelique invented the word as a response to taunts when she was going to school. The boys did not know what the word meant, but to her it was an assertion of the rights of girls to education.

 


The Batonga Foundation is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. All donations are tax-deductible.

Batonga’s mission is to support both secondary school and higher education for girls in Africa. We are doing this by granting scholarships, building secondary schools, increasing enrollment, improving teaching standards, providing school supplies, supporting mentor programs, exploring alternative education models and advocating for community awareness of the value of education for girls.



For general inquiries contact: info@batongafoundation.org

For all press inquiries please contact: press@batongafoundation.org




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The work of Batonga in Africa is to:

  • grant scholarships for girls to attend existing secondary schools (grades 7 to 12), with continued support as they progress through university, vocational school or other skill-based adult learning activities.
  • build secondary schools in a limited number of communities that can guarantee that a minimum of half the students will be girls and where the school, once built, will be operated through ongoing government and community support.
  • increase enrollment of girls in existing schools by building dormitory facilities where distance from school to home are too great, and providing parental support and incentives that help to ensure the girls stay in school.
  • improve teaching standards in secondary schools by supporting internet-based distance learning, wage incentives, enhanced summer programs, mentoring by master teachers and onsite teacher-training programs.
  • provide school supplies in the form of textbooks, library books, teaching materials, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils and other basic items which are often non-existent or in short supply.
  • support mentor programs for girl students that link them with older women who can serve as guides and elder ‘protectors’ as the girls face challenges both personal and social during the course of their education.
  • explore alternative education models such as mobile secondary schools and radio-based distance learning for remote communities or for families with cultural restrictions on girls being sent away from home for schooling.
  • advocate for community awareness to promote and support girls’ education by addressing the gender prejudice and cultural traditions that restrict the empowerment of women in general, and their access to education in particular.
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Dec 6 2008 1:45 PM

Blessed, blessed work.

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Jan 1 2009 7:12 PM

Happy New Year 2009 !
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Jul 11 2008 11:01 PM

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Jul 18 2008 6:45 PM

Hey Batonga,
Just stopping by to spread some joy. Hope you're having a great day!

~Cynova
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Oct 4 2008 6:54 PM

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Jun 12 2008 9:53 PM

Heip! Cheers for the friendship, jeah!
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Jun 12 2008 5:50 PM

Thx for the Add,

You are in the right place in our Top Friends, it's an honor to welcome you in our universe.

Best Wishes for you and your action.

Fred (TIEP Drummer)

Désolé pour mon anglais, mais c'est très dur pour moi. Tous nos voeux pour votre action, vous pouvez compter sur notre support plein et entier.

Amicalement,

Fred
Radha





May 10 2008 4:12 PM

It is my pleasure to meet you!
Thanks for the friendship.
Awesome vibe here.
All the best in your endeavors and stay in touch.
Cheers!
Radha
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Jan 19 2008 2:26 AM

Happy Birthday ~ Bonne Fête ~ Feliz Cumpleaños ~ Buon Compleanno !!!

Dear Batonga,
Happy Birthday!
Have a wonderful day with your Family and friends, all the best for your new year of life!

Peace and light,
Giorgia Fumanti
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Jan 19 2008 2:38 AM

Happy Birthday greetings from Los Angeles, CA!

Have a blessed year.

Much love...
Tracey
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Apr 30 2008 2:32 PM

Thank you for adding Nkosi

Very pleased to be here, great cause, great page

All the best

Nkosi
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Feb 10 2008 2:39 PM

Thanks for the add !
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Feb 16 2008 8:01 PM

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Apr 4 2008 4:23 PM

Batonga,
Best wishes in 2008 for Africa and the girls of the present who will make the future!
love,
n
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Jan 2 2008 6:21 PM

Pon fotos sin limite en slide.com GRATIS!!!

And the day has come. The next 10th of January, 2008, part of the new album by Aziza Brahim, entitled Mi Canto (My Chanting), will be available for listening in her Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/azizabrahim.

And to celebrate it, Aziza has a special present for you: during the whole 10th of January, you will be able to freely download her track Regreso, included in her new album.

Furthermore, Aziza would like that the track would be downloaded by as many people as possible. Thus, in that day, the saharawi music will have a place in internet, and will remind all of us that there is still a people (the saharawi people) which resists the injustice in the middle of the desert.

Free Western Sahara

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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Jan 2 2008 6:42 AM

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Dec 31 2007 7:32 PM

Do not allow the past
To impose itself on you.
Do not allow the future
To come to you unduly fast.
Just try to live
In your today's peace-world.
..........................................
Happy New Year 2008
Gerard
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Dec 31 2007 9:05 AM

THANKS FOR THE REQ AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008.
Metiss Soulment Votre.





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Dec 31 2007 4:16 AM

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Peace, love & blessings for the New Year!
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Dec 25 2007 6:48 PM

BATONGA,
FELICES FIESTAS Y AÑO NUEVO

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Dec 24 2007 3:44 PM

MERRY XMAS!!!

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