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With the start of a new school year, we have a slew of potential new students applying to join our elementary school in Djicofè. The

This article is a short update of a previous story that can be found here.With the conclusion of the 2023. – 2024. school year, we

Traditional pharmacy For many millions of people, medicinal plants, traditional treatments and traditional practitioners are the main, and sometimes the only, source of health care.

We are almost at the end of the project financed by the Region of Tuscany in 2017 entitled‘100 chicken houses in Dijcofè‘, which aims to

Doing something in villages in the savannah is one of the most exciting experiences a volunteer can have. The village that taught Nasara how to effectively help a village in the savannah was Rouaghin. Thanks also to the commitment of other benefactors who believed in this project, we realised the most necessary things for a village: a motor pump to irrigate the vegetable gardens, a grain mill, a well for drinking water.

In line with UNESCO’s indications, this project sought to pursue “A cultural approach to AIDS prevention” by resorting to popular theatre as a medium capable of involving different age groups, but especially children, and of stimulating through images and play an awareness and consciousness that are the foundations of all prevention.

‘Man, however oppressed he may be, has another human being to oppress, the woman’. Precisely in order to help single mothers, young women fleeing situations of hardship, Father Celestino’s Menager School was founded in Ouagadougou.

Ouagadougou is a city of a thousand faces and working in poor neighbourhoods holds many surprises in store for the great humanity and solidarity found among the people there.
Seeing the boys loitering in the dusty streets of the neighbourhood, easy prey to bad habits, Mamadou and Awa thought of opening their very humble home to these boys.

In order for the hospital in Nanoró to function, it is necessary for many volunteer doctors to go to the small village for long periods of time to work there.
In Nanoró there are no hotels, no B&Bs and no inns …

When the Camillians arrived in Burkina Faso, Nanorò and its dependent villages were still a largely swampy area. Today, the Nanorò Hospital has become an excellence and a point of reference for the whole of Central Africa.