by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 27, 2017 | All News
No two shifts are the same in the life of a midwife at the Bethanie medical centre. Mrs Ouedraogo, pictured, has worked at the clinic for nearly two years, after qualifying in midwifery in Ouagadougou. The centre offers ante and post natal care to up to 100 women and...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 22, 2017 | All News
Alongside providing clean, accessible water to more people in Burkina Faso, we are also working with local communities to improve levels of hygiene and sanitation. In many villages, even when there is a well or other source of clean water, there are often insufficient...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 22, 2017 | All News
‘I love the way we are taught…when I grow up I also want to be a teacher and this is helping me to realise my dream.’ Tamara Ouedraogo, aged 12, is now in the senior class at Soulyale, a bright, smiling pupil who loves school, particularly history...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 22, 2017 | All News
Positive futures are being born in this chicken shed in rural Burkina Faso. Thanks to a small micro credit loan, Isaac Gumbiou now has a successful chicken breeding business, one that is generating the money his family needs to send his children to school. Isaac has...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 15, 2017 | All News
A new well at Ramogo has transformed the lives of this isolated rural community north west of the capital Ouagadougou. Villagers, who previously had to walk 3km to the nearest source of water, now have a clean, accessible supply for drinking, washing and other uses on...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Feb 23, 2017 | All News
Kevin Lawrence, the charity’s Executive Officer, is about to visit our projects and partners in Burkina Faso. Here he reflects on preparing to go. ‘This time next week, I hope to be sitting under a shady tree in 40 degree heat; talking to local...
