Polish aid

Since 2019, efforts have been made to improve teaching conditions. These activities are undertaken by the Good Factory Foundation under the project funded by Polish Aid.

To date, the school’s buildings have undergone redecoration, the sewing studio has been built from scratch as a wooden beam structure, and afterwards equipped with sewing machines. It is nice to learn and work in sewing rooms that have been freshened up and are properly equipped.

 

The schools have also received new furniture: chairs, wardrobes and proper tables. They have been equipped with computers with software and accessories. The sisters also saw to buying the French language teaching resources. 

In Dakar, at the end of June 2020, a shop began to be built near the Foyer s. Maria Goretti’s girls’ vocational school. Structural works on the building’s construction have now been completed. Finishing works are underway. Soon, the shop will be ready for the young women to work at and sell the effects of their sewing skills.

On its turn, at the school in Joal, preparatory works are underway to build two open rooms for additional classrooms.

All savings that have been made are allocated to carry out additional modernization works necessary to improve the conditions at the schools.

The vocational trainings gather inhabitants of villages and poor boroughs of Dakar and Joal as well as daughters of economic migrants from Guinea-Bissau. Special training courses and the equipment modernization of the teaching centres increase the chances of socio-economic advance of women, local community, or migrant workers, and create opportunities for the economic development of the region.

Thus, the main objective of development assistance in Senegal is to improve the quality of education and to enhance vocational activity of women.