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Burkina Gives Back Twice the Energy it Robs You Of

Jun 30, 2016 | 0 Comments

Losing your hearing to an infection at the age of 14 would be hard anywhere, but in Rimkieta even harder, if that’s possible. The case of Ismael, who recovered his hearing at 23 …provides the daily dose of energy I need to keep going! I always say that Burkina "robs"...

I Don’t Want to Follow You!!

May 31, 2016 | 0 Comments

Influences, be they good or bad, are a part of life. When you are a child "on the street" and they come from bad company they can be a problem… just ask JK… JK is one of the 100 children in the "Education and reintegration of street children" project. He is one of the...

And You, What Makes You Happy?

Apr 15, 2016 | 0 Comments

“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”...

Corporal Punishment to Educate

Feb 8, 2016 | 0 Comments

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...

A New President in Burkina Faso

Dec 17, 2015 | 0 Comments

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...

After the Coup d’État, Life Goes on in Rimkieta!

Nov 25, 2015 | 0 Comments

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...

Chronicle of a Coup d’État

Oct 8, 2015 | 0 Comments

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...

Africa and Her Guardian Angels

May 28, 2015 | 0 Comments

I have often read that Africa is the forgotten continent, but I go to bed every night convinced that it’s anything but. How else can you explain that a group of children no more than 4 years old, shoeless and barely clothed with “loincloths” play with fire, metal and...

Burkina Is Saved!

Apr 13, 2015 | 0 Comments

This is my recount of my latest trip. It seems to me it merits the title “Burkina is saved!” Because among so many good things we saw, the most important is that Burkina Faso can serve as an example to the world of how an oppressed nation is capable of rebelling and...

Leopold’s Banner

Jan 30, 2015 | 0 Comments

This is a very special post, as special as it is the one who writes it, Leopoldo Abadía, a great person, as his wife Elena. Both have seen me to grow since I was little. I was lucky to eat with them a few days ago and from this lunch, between laugh and laugh because...