Our students are girls determined to pursue their education and build a life for themselves. They face a highly patriarchal and culturally conservative community, where women have low social status and few rights.

The Academy’s entering class was of 46 girls between the ages of 13 and 21. One year later, the Academy has 213 students of which 55 are undertaking vocational skills training and 63 have successfully completed the accelerated learning program and are preparing to take final examinations in October 2009.

Out 213 students 60% are the breast feeding mothers whose babies are under 2 years, 20% are child mothers whose babies are above 2 years old and 20% of the students are the most vulnerable children from the community.