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Meet our Graduates WGEP is proud of our graduates, who are living proof of the power of education to change lives--and of the multiplier effect of its impact on families and communities!  Meet FatouFatou's family was poor and illiterate, but they believed in education and were determined for Fatou to go to school. The family worked hard to make this happen, but they struggled to make ends meet and still pay for Fatou’s education. Then Fatou was enrolled in WGEP’s Sisters-to-School Senegal. “I really benefited from this program,” Fatou says. “It allowed me to be among the best students in my class and to succeed on the first round on the Baccalauréat.” After passing the “BAC”--Senegal’s notoriously difficult national graduation exam--Fatou graduated from high school and went for training in elementary education. Now Fatou is impacting the next generation as an elementary teacher in the village of Soum. “Graduates like me must now be the pioneers of Sisters-to-School,” she says. “I try to help the families send their girls to school and reduce their domestic work so they can study. I give free coaching to girls whose parents are poor and illiterate. With my small salary, I help the girls with their supplies. I try to motivate my students every way I can.” Meet Adama Adama was part of WGEP Senegal’s tutoring program for the 2008/2009 school year. She needed extra support in English and Spanish in preparing for her BAC, Senegal’s rigorous national graduation exam. She passed the BAC in 2009 and is now enrolled in a bank training course which will qualify her to work in a bank. Adama’s father is deceased and her family has little income so they were unable to pay for evening classes even though Adama needed additional help in those two subjects. She had difficulty writing as well as staying focused on her school work. However, with the help of WGEP, she succeeded on her BAC. Congratulations, Adama! Meet Adji Adji participated in the tutoring program for the 2009/2010 school year. Without the help from WGEP, Adji would not have been able to attend after-school tutoring classes which she needed to pass her BAC and graduate. Adji is one of seven children. Her father is deceased and her mother is unemployed, so her family had no source of extra funding for tutoring. With WGEP’s help, Adji passed her BAC and is now studying at the university in Dakar, the second girl in her family to go to college. She is majoring in geography because she enjoys learning how the earth and the human population affect each other. When Adji has completed university, she wants to be a demographer. Meet Gabasbi Gabasbi received tutoring in English and French through the 2009 tutoring program. She was having difficulties in these subjects, but her family could not afford to pay for tutoring. Even though the family struggled financially, Gabasbi’s mother always encouraged her and her siblings to do well in school and follow their dreams.With help from WGEP, Gabasbi was able to succeed on her BAC and now attends college in Dakar. She is majoring in contemporary literature and wants to be a writer or journalist when she graduates.
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