2023
Since 2004, the French association Racines d’Enfance has been working in rural areas of Senegal to promote children’s education. Since it was founded, it has built a dozen nursery schools and provided schooling for over 8,600 children aged 2 to 7. Its aim is to help improve children’s living conditions and support them as they take their first steps towards school, so that they can integrate successfully into the primary education cycle and have a successful academic journey.
Through its work, the association also enables mothers to have free time so they can devote themselves to developing income-generating activities.
Over the last five years, the Bel Foundation has supported Racines d’Enfance in developing canteens and vegetable gardens at these nursery schools in Senegal. In 2022, the Ivorian education authorities asked the association to replicate its pre-school model in the country, as Côte d’Ivoire has very few facilities for children in this age group, with the Bel Foundation giving the association its assistance in this project.
Learn more about the projects supported in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
The Foundation’s support in 2023 will enable the association to build a canteen in a new nursery school in Senegal.
What are the project’s expected results?
A total of around 100 nursery pupils will have access to one meal per day throughout the school year.
