The second year of our effort to help students improve their language skills — the French Language Improvement Project — was a big success! FLIP focuses most heavily on giving students the vocabulary they need in the classroom and improving reading comprehension so that students can study textbooks more easily. In these areas, students improved by 24% (compared to -2% for the control) and 18% (compared to 7% for the control). Read more about the results and how FLIP works….
Creativity + Business Acumen = Bright Future
Creating and wearing beautiful clothes is a passion that crosses the boundaries of every country. No matter where you go, you’ll find people who turn clothing into an art form with their sewing skill. Mali Rising Foundation alum Djeneba Samake is one such young woman with a passion for sewing that, with te help of Mali Rising’s donors, she is now turning into a career.