Sunshine Center in Mali Providing Life Changing Opportunities

A recent article from the Mali Rising Foundation features Diawelé, a student from one of the schools Sunshine Heroes sponsored in Mali in 2009 along with the Mali Rising Foundation. The article tells the story of a trip girls with good grades get to take to the capital city of Bamako with “The Girls’ Project’.

This year, one of those students was Diawelé, a very curious and intelligent 13 year old girl who is always ready to discover new things. She is in 7th grade at Mana's Little Heroes Academy I, the first Sunshine Center built by our foundation (read the story here). According to her, this visit allowed her to see how passionate she is about nature. This is why she wants to be a biology teacher. During this visit, Diawelé put herself in the shoes of a biologist. Every time she saw a strange tree or flower, she goes closer to look at the name and writes it down in her little notebook.

Diawelé, said of the trip: “The visit transformed our lives. I had never left our village and I did not think that I would one day have the opportunity to discover the capital and such impressive new things as a student.”