Burkina Faso

This is the school attended by 2 of our sponsored girls in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Fousseina and Assana in class.

Fousseina

Assana

Burkina Faso

Samiratou outside of school.

Sephora in her classroom.

Distributing Food in Burkina Faso

Pascal helped Biba with the distribution.

In early October the children in Burkina Faso each received a 50 pound bag of beans and rice for their families. The children and their families wore their best clothes to come and pick up their food donations.

Pascal

Samiritou

Samiritou also received  her bicycle

Sephora

Fousseina

Issa

Beans

Ida

Food distribution in Burkina Faso

This past weekend the families in Burkina Faso were able to pick up their sacks of beans and rice.

Samiratou, who is in high school, received a bicycle. She had been walking over an hour each way to school.

Her Star Scholars: Burkina Faso

The Hospital

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in Africa. Ouagadougou, its capital, a city of 1.7 million people, will be the site of Her Star Scholar's first African program which will begin mid-September.

Biba, our local coordinator, has sent some pictures of Ouagadougou.

A Bank 

Shop fronts

A Street Market

A Squatter's Community on the Edge of the City

Burkina Faso's Political Troubles

Violence in Burkina Faso

Biba, the Her Star Scholars local contact in Burkina Faso, has been writing since the end of March to ask for prayers for peace in her country. Apparently these nightly shootings in Ouagadougou have been going on sporadically since the ned of March, but in the past weeks have become an almost nightly affair. I've been told that people are now afraid to leave their homes after dark or to travel home from work after dark. Please keep Biba, the children, the city and the nation of Burkina Faso in your thoughts or prayers.