The project pays for a noon meal for girls who attend a girls' middle school and whose parents cannot afford school. Girls walk 6 km to and from school and have no other source of food during the day.
The project buys lambs & school materials for girls' first year of school. It requires parents to raise, sell & purchase lambs to pay for their daughters' school needs the following 12 years of school
In sub-Saharan Africa, the struggle to obtain decent housing plunges millions of families into a vicious circle of poverty. Association la Voûte Nubienne (AVN) offers a solution to this problem, based on three principles: A Roof + A Skill + A Market.
AVN organises the training and support of local teams to promote this solution on a large-scale so that families can acquire affordable, sustainable, and decent housing, at the same time improving their economic conditions and quality of life.
Villagers of Tantiaka asked us to help secure their right to clean water.
Step 1: Install 1 well, rehabilitate 1 well, introduce sanitation, WASH-in-Schools, hygiene education, ceramic water filters
Step 2: Irrigation, food security, climate adaptation/mitigation, women's rights, indigenous rights.
Project begins Q1 2012. Are you coming?
"Barka" is a West African word of gratitude, blessing and reciprocity. Please join us!
Countries:
Burkina Faso
Themes:
Health,
Children,
Women and Girls
Helen Keller International improves the vitamin A intake of women and children in Burkina Faso through the production and consumption of orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes, a vitamin A rich food.
This project supports FAVL's library in Sara, a village in Burkina Faso, W. Africa. Your support helps acquire new books, maintain the facility, enable activities, and provide the librarian's salary
Friends of African Village Libraries' summer reading camps teach students how to read. Through individual tutoring, educational games and activities, elementary school students learn how to read.
This project supports FAVL's library in Bereba, a village in Burkina Faso, W. Africa. Your support helps acquire new books, maintain the facility, enable activities, and provide the librarian's salary
The Meningitis Vaccine Project is working to end epidemics of meningitis A, which regularly kill or disable thousands of children and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa.
