Kolda, Jan 20 (APS) – More than 1,500 students from three elementary schools in the municipality of Kolda (south) have been enrolled in the community’s mutual health organization open to the Gadapara district, thanks to the support of a sponsor who requested to remain anonymous.
“We have started the process of enrolling students from three elementary schools in Gadapara, in the community mutual health organization of Kolda, thanks to the support of a philanthropist who wants to remain anonymous. Currently, we are at around 1400 students that were directly targeted,” said Mamadou Malado Diallo, the sponsor’s representative and focal point of the Institute for Citizenship, Consumers and Development in Africa (CICODEV Africa).
According to him, it is to support parents in taking charge of their children’s health care needs.
“The objective is to support parents in taking charge of the health care of the students and to avoid cases of students dropping out of school which is often linked to their health problems,” explained Mr. Diallo during the ceremony of handing over membership cards to students this Wednesday in Kolda.
In addition to enrolling students in the mutual health organization, they also received donated school kits.
Alongside managing the beneficiary Franco-Arab school with two other targeted elementary schools, there were more than 200 elementary and middle school students enrolled in the process.
“At our Franco-Arab school, we had 200 students who benefit from this support. We are very satisfied because this will certainly relieve the parents, but its impact on keeping children in school is to be welcomed, we have cases of absence due to illnesses,” confided Abdourahame Diallo, director of the Franco-Arab school.
Thus, Gadapara’s mutual health organization regroups more than 16,000 beneficiaries including adults, children and women.
Source: APS JANUARY 20, 2021