Opening its doors to pupils, the new three classroom block at Soulyale is another milestone in our efforts to create new opportunities for an excellent education at this rural school in northern Burkina Faso. Thanks to generous donations from the UK, the brand new...

With no regular work available or family savings to fall back on, Sandrine Ouiya and her father (pictured) were facing tough choices. Whilst day labourer work brought some money in, the Ouiya family live on little more than $1 a day and there was barely enough family...

It may not look like much at the moment, but this 'hole in the ground' has the capacity to improve health outcomes for thousands of people in Burkina Faso. One of the areas where our health clinic has sought support is in the construction of latrine facilities on...

Students at our Stafford Centre are not only helping to grow their own food, but also learning vital agricultural skills at the same time.  Some pictures of recent activity to transplant cabbages and zuchinni, for example, show just how productive and effective small...

With funding now in place for the initial phase of our micro credit programme, the first loans are now being granted to families in rural Burkina Faso. The scheme is designed to support the setiing up of small busineses relating to agriculture, the principal...

School lunches don't come much fresher than this! Thanks to a ground breaking agriculture project at the Stafford Centre, pupils are now enjoying fresh produce such as these aubergines in their school canteen, grown on land next to the school.  Farming conditions in...

A new project to offer practical training skills to young people in Burkina Faso has already seen dozens gain the support they need to start out in a new trade. Based in two specialist vocational training centres in the north of the country, courses teaching a number...

Christmas is often a time of gift giving; this festive season, could you, your church or group, respond a little differently by giving really useful gifts to families struggling to recover from poor harvests and real hardships this year? It may not have often made the...

Our latest newsletter, with stories from our projects in Burkina Faso, has just been published. You can download a printable version here or, if you would prefer to receive future editions directly by email, sign up below. If you used to receive this, but no longer...