Apr 15, 2016
“And You, What Makes You Happy?” This is the question we asked each of the twenty girls in this fourth year of the unschooled girls project during the monthly personal chat in March. What do you think their answers were? “I’ll be happy the day they buy me a bicycle”...
Feb 8, 2016
I’m back in Rimkieta after a few weeks in Barcelona. I’ve come back refreshed, and full of energy. And I’m convinced that after what this country has suffered over the past two years (the threat of Ebola, a popular uprising and the president stepping down, a year of...
Dec 17, 2015
On Sunday, November 29, 3,309,988 burkinabés chose their new president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, of the MPP party (Mouvement du Peuple pour le Progrès – or People’s Progressive Movement). But it wasn’t until December 15 – two weeks later – that the Constitutional...
Nov 25, 2015
The three weeks of standstill the coup d’etat provoked have not kept the 2015-2016 academic year and our projects in Rimkieta from getting off to a good start! This year, in addition to the Maternelle, the literacy program for mothers, the scholarships, the...
Oct 8, 2015
After nine months in Spain and only a few hours after getting home, my adoptive country welcomed me with a coup d’état that paralyzed for a few weeks the exemplary transition process that Burkina was enjoying. The incident, a real and exemplary popular revolt that...
