November 11, 2022, Mali

Today is "Fa" day (Satisfied Friday) November 11th 2022, a day to be celebrated. Therefore, I bought a chicken for my entrepreneurial class for the sake of my own happiness. All these because I finally finished the collection of 40 students that you all sponsored this year. As I mentioned in my previous email, it was the hardest decision I ever went through. However, many lessons have been learned through the process. But what was quite evident was students were randomly chosen with no regard to whether they were from poor or rich families. But all these should be in the past now since everyone recognized the problems it had caused. I hope we all learned our lesson. Now everyone understands that only Binta and myself are the only people that are allowed to interview and recruit students.

I am so sorry it has taken so long to take care of everything. But I did meet with Oumar Sidibe the headmaster of Nieblasso to pay sponsorship for all 40 students. The next thing is to collect appropriate students that will be with our new teacher. Pretty soon things will be in order and then I will start the foodhealth program. 

Baba Wague Diakite