Framework of the project
In the Abalak department of Niger, according to official figures, only one child out of two is provided with primary schooling and 86 % of the teachers have not benefited of tuition for becoming teacher (sources :local Development programme of Abalak 2007-2010)
Faced with such a situation, some inhabitants of Abalak and of its region of Azawagh have created an association so-called ONODEP with the aim of creating and managing a school.
The project milestones
2009 :Stage 1 : the primary school opens in October with 4 classes : CI, CP, CE1, CE2
2010 : Opening CM1 and CM2
2011 : Stage 2 : Opening secondary school (2 classes - 6eme and 5eme)
2012 : Opening 2 more classes (4eme and 3eme)
2013 : Opening High school
The necessary investments for primary school amount approximately to 100 000 €, and then to 150 000 € for the secondary and the third levels
Final aim of TANAT association
Final aim : a school for 390 pupils and 18 teachers
Primary level : 180 pupils
Secondary level : 120 pupils
Third level : 90 pupils
School running expenses are taken in charge by the pupils. However, approximately 30 % of the whole of the pupils are reserved to pupils whose families cannot bear such charges. These pupils are selected according to their merits by a Committee where ONONDEP, the pupils’s parents, Abalak City Hall, TANAt school, are represented; some sponsoring managed by TANAT Association in France also allows to take in charge such pupils and as a consequence allow to balance school running expenses.
