{"id":22591,"date":"2024-06-26T02:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edify.org\/?p=22591"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:49:41","slug":"one-girls-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/one-girls-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"One Girl’s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick Google search reveals that Burkina Faso is home to 21 million people, yet many are unaware that it’s also home to over 3 million child brides. Shockingly, a UNICEF study<\/a> found that 1 in 2 young women (under 18) are married in childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Claudia Sawadogo, Christ-Centered Education Officer in Burkina Faso, shares the cultural context behind these troubling statistics, as well as her hope for the future, \u201cIn our culture, most parents assume their daughter\u2019s time would be better spent at home, learning family duties. They often resist investing in schooling and instead encourage the young girls to remain at home rather than go to school\u2026 Yet today, we see women doctors, presidents, and leaders around the world. We have seen what happens when you allow young women to aspire to become all they can be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Clear Vision<\/h2>\n

Driven by this vision, the Edify team in Burkina Faso is committed to opening doors for young women to dream big through Christ-centered education. Over the past two years, they’ve collaborated with dedicated educators at Ly\u0107ee Pierre Dupre, offering a glimpse of what’s possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

The teachers at Ly\u0107ee Pierre Dupre strive to \u201cdiscover precisely what God deposited in each young student,\u201d as Claudia describes. Mr. Ali Compaor\u00e9, the school owner, is a devout servant of God who supports students in every aspect of their lives. When asked about his motivation, Ali shares, \u201cI witnessed too many girls dropping out of school and recognized the need for girls’ education for a confident future\u2026 With belief, everything is possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One Girl’s Dream<\/h2>\n

Sawadogo Rafaa, one of the many young women attending Lyc\u00e9e Pierre Dupre, is a living testimony of the transformation. Growing up as a young woman in Burkina Faso, she often sees women dropping out of school to raise families. However, when she began attending Lyc\u00e9e Pierre Dupre, she was encouraged to dream, study hard, and do her best. It felt like the doors of education and opportunity opened up for her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI used to think my questions in school were irrelevant, and I was afraid to speak up. But my teachers now tell me that there is no such thing as a wrong question. They push me beyond my ability and are always happy to teach and be with us. We can feel this from the way they do their jobs,\u201d Rafaa shared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dreams Unlocked<\/h2>\n

Attending an Edify partner school did more than educate Rafaa: it opened the door to faith in Jesus. Growing up in a Muslim family, Rafaa had never read the Bible, yet shortly after enrolling, she received her very first New Testament Bible. What began as disinterest grew to curiosity as she heard her teachers explain the heart of Jesus during class and how much God loved her. She remembered Ali coming to class and encouraging her and her classmates with the truth of God\u2019s sacrifice for us through Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rafaa shares about when she made the decision to follow Jesus, \u201cI began to think about if I ever had a child one day; I couldn\u2019t imagine sacrificing them as God did with His Son. This is just the ultimate sacrifice. It is something big, and it shows God’s love. Then I thought to myself, \u2018no one will ever truly love me more than Him,\u2019 so I have decided to love Him also.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That day, Rafaa crossed the threshold of faith, embarking on a lifelong journey of dreaming big with Jesus. Through education and Christ-centered teaching, young women across Burkina Faso are discovering new opportunities. As they step forward, may God grant them the confidence to pursue their dreams and the assurance that Jesus walks beside them every step of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about how God is working through Edify in Burkina Faso here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick Google search reveals that Burkina Faso is home to 21 million people, yet many are unaware that it’s also home to over 3 million child brides. Shockingly, a UNICEF study found that 1 in 2 young women (under 18) are married in childhood. Claudia Sawadogo, Christ-Centered Education Officer in Burkina Faso, shares the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,40],"tags":[354,355],"hf_cat_post":[],"class_list":["post-22591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burkina-faso","category-education-advocacy","tag-education-advocacy","tag-global-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34058,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions\/34058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22591"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edify.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=22591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}