’My name is Ouedraogo Mamounata, I'm 38 years old and currently the mother of eight young children. I'm married, and we live in Kassba, in the Perkouma neighborhood, a village about 13 km from Gourcy.
The rehabilitation of the water point in our neighborhood is very useful to us, and it has really made our lives easier because we have clean drinking water for the whole family all year round.
This pump saves me a lot of time I can now spend doing my housework and taking care of my children. During the long years when the pump was broken, we would have to travel more than 3 km to fetch water from the open wells on the banks of the dam, using a bicycle or on our heads if the bicycle broke down. But currently, I have a drinking water point less than 100 meters from my house.
In addition, with the water point near my household I am more relaxed because my older children can help me with the water collection safely; with open wells there is always a risk of accident. About 8 years ago one of my co-wives lost her daughter who died in one of these wells while she was taking water for the family. Since then, we are always afraid when the children go to fetch water since we did not have an alternative working water point nearby. This pump really came to save the lives of our children because I do not know how many of them would have fallen into it if the pump had not been rehabilitated!
My name is ZIDNABA Djibril, aged 40 I am married and father of ten (10) children. I live in the village of Kampelesezougou in the commune of Kando and I belong to the Namalgbzanga group, we constitute 42 members including 23 men and 19 women.
Today with the support of the project, I practice sheep breeding (sheep) and a little market gardening (onion, tomato). With the loan I have been given, I manage to pay for the lambs, raise them, fatten them and then sell them.
’My name is Nèmata Kindo and I am 15 years old and in the 4th grade at the Béthel high school in Gourcy. I come from a polygamous family and I live in Guila, a village 7km from the school. The living conditions of our family are difficult because my parents are not able to provide the three meals a day. I leave home at 6am on a bicycle to be on time at school every day from Monday to Friday.
I am enrolled in the school canteen program thanks to Transform Burkina.
This program allows me to have hot meals for lunches, to stay under the trees to rest a little and review my lessons during the afternoons. It has also allowed me to improve academic performance.
This food program is really important and very beneficial for me and I am very happy to be a beneficiary.
My name is KABORE Djéswendé. I am 35 and am married and father of one boy. I live in the village of Kampeleszougo, commune of Kando and I belong to the Namalgbzanga co-operative group, which is composed of 42 people ( 23 men and 19 women ).
Today with the support of Transform Burkina, I am involved in market gardening (onion, tomato and pepper) and sheep breeding.
I summarize the project through this Mossi proverb which says that: "If a blind man has had gold he owes it to his guide". It's just to say that what I am today is thanks to the project so I can only say thank you and I wish long life to the project and its leaders.
My plans for the future are to become a large producer of tomatoes and onions and to have several collaborators with processing plants.
My name is KABORE Clementine. I am 30 years old, married and the mother of four children. I live in the village of Doundoudougou. We have forty people in our co-operative, including eleven men and twenty-nine women.
Before the project I was without fixed activity, I did housework and gardening work. What I earned after the harvest was insignificant especially when the rainfall was poor, which meant that the harvests were not good.
During the project I received training in several activities:
· A literacy training that allowed me to know how to read, write, count...;
· Training in soap making;
· Training in breeding;
· Training in agriculture;
· Training in livestock fodder making;
· Training in weaving.
Each training allowed me to have knowledge in each activity, how to manage to thrive in my business.
Today with the support of the project, I am a weaver.
This activity consists of paying for the weaving thread at the market, dipping it in the shade to put the preferred colour. Then we wind the thread by colour range to finally move on to the weaving machine. In the month I can weave about sixty loincloths. Thanks to this benefit I help my husband in the management of the family (food, medical care, schooling of children, my clothing and that of my family ...)
