Niger is, after South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the third country in terms of low access to education for girls. In this 20-million inhabitants country, only one girl out of 2 goes to middle school, one girl out of ten attends middle school and one girl out of fifty reaches high school. Moreover, 75% og nigerian girls are married before the age of 18. 

The access to secondary education for young girls is especially low in the Tillabéry Region where is located the Ganguel plateau, AMADE's area of intervention.

50% of girls have access to primary schools on the plateau, sometimes in very basic conditions (straw hut classes, no electricity, no latrine), but only 16% of them attend the Saga Fondo middle school.

Facing this analysis, AMADE initiated in partneship with the Nigerian Minsitry of Education a large program to renovate and build school infrastructures. This program aims to improve access conditions to primary education and to promote the access to secondary education, especially for young girls. During the first phase of the program in 2016, 4 classrooms, an administrative buiding and a library were built in the Saga Fondo middle school. 8 classrooms were also built in 5 primary schools on the plateau.

The second phase of the program will allow the construction of additional school infrastructures  and will be emphasising on awareness activities towards local communities to promote access to education for girls, prevention of early marriage and the importance of birth registration.