by Jonny Wooldridge | May 17, 2018 | All News
We believe that good quality education for young people is vital to future development in Burkina Faso. We also believe that education is about much more than books and exams, however important these remain. Pupils at the Stafford Centre, one of the schools we...
by Jonny Wooldridge | May 8, 2018 | All News
We are working to improve the conditions at the medical centre we support for both patients and staff, with one of the priorities they have identified being the provision of latrines and washing facilities. The Bethanie centre, which serves hundreds of patients each...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Apr 18, 2018 | All News
For Mr and Mrs Ouedraogo, pictured left. the food crisis in northern Burkina Faso has reached a crisis point. Silemane Ouedraogo, with his 8 strong family, has been farming his land in Tangaye, in the north, since 1994. The rains have been unreliable in previous...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Apr 16, 2018 | All News
Via truck, ship and then truck again, the gifts from an Edinburgh school have completed their 3,000 mile journey to Burkina Faso. Now safely unloaded (see picture on right) and ready to be distributed to projects that will transform lives in Transform Burkina, the...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 28, 2018 | All News
Kind hearted Edinburgh theatre goers have dug deep to help transform more lives in Burkina Faso At a recent performance of ‘Hello Dolly’ by the Southern Light Opera Company, audience members were invited to give, as part of a retiring collection, to two...
by Jonny Wooldridge | Mar 27, 2018 | All News
Students and orphans at the Stafford Centre near Ouagadougou are now enjoying a daily diet of fresh salad and vegetables, thanks to an innovative agricultural project. Solar powered drip feed irrigation is transforming land next to the school (pictured) into a...
