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Use Everyclick.com as your search engine and raise money for Aid to Burkina!
14 February, 2012 Continue reading

Check out www.everyclick.com – register your interest in Aid to Burkina (sorry – one of the icons is non-functional so choose the one that is lower down the picking list as this one definitiely works!) If you then search using everyclick as your search engine you start raising money for the charity.  Not bad!! Every [...]

Aid to Burkina raising funds for a new Eye Hospital
2 January, 2012 Continue reading

Over the last few years we have made friends with one of the local eye surgeons, Dr Diallo. In October he told us that 60% of his work is related to Diabetic eye disease which inevitably results in blindness. With the number of Diabetics scheduled to double in Africa in the next 10-20 years and with [...]

Guinkere well
11 December, 2011 Continue reading

Here is the latest video footage from Guinkere where we dug the well in October 2011. Click here to see more  Guinkere Well

Just back from our latest visit
23 October, 2011 Continue reading

Just returned last week from our latest visit to Bobo-Dioulasso where we spent 2 weeks with our friends Moise and Elizabeth Oubda. During our stay we visited Guinkere, the village where we dug the most recent well. The village people were so pleased with their new source of water, and the older women in particular, [...]

Fundraiser at The Pavilion Cantonese Resturant, Iveston, Monday 26th September
7 August, 2011 Continue reading

Help support the work of Aid to Burkina by having a great meal and a good night out at our annual fundraising event! Tickets are £26 per head, tables of between 10 – 13 people available. Why not get your friends to come along and take a table? If you are interested in finding out [...]

Faso Five-O
13 July, 2011 Continue reading

Keith and Lynne Smith have been involved in work in Gorom-Gorom in North East Burkina Faso for many years, spending 6 months of the year in the UK and 6 months living as part of the community in Gorom-Gorom. Lynne provides dental care to the people in the locality, something which is entirely lacking otherwise. [...]

Nurse’s house can now be built thanks to generous gifts from Witton Park group of Anglican churches.
5 June, 2011 Continue reading

Thanks to a very generous gift from Witton Park Anglican church and associated Churches at the end of May following their Lent Smartie tube appeal which raised £800 !  We are now able to complete the nurse’s house at Bana and the construction should begin on this final stage of the first phase of work within the next few weeks. [...]

Rising food prices in Burkina Faso
2 April, 2011 Continue reading

Here is an interesting YouTube video about the rising food prices in Burkina Faso a few years ago. We found ourselves in the middle of the food riots – not good! Click here to watch the video

Bana Clinic nears completion
26 March, 2011 Continue reading

2 years ago we were asked by the elders of the village of Bana, a village about 10 miles outside of Bobo-Dioulasso, to build a small clinic (in French known as a ‘Dispensary’). The village and surrounding area had no health care at all an we found in very difficult to be asked to examine [...]

Sitting in CDG airport after a busy week
1 March, 2011 Continue reading

Just back from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital city, after a long journey by coach, car and plane and now waiting for the Final plane flight back home. We’ve had a very full and productive week reviewing all the projects we have undertaken in the last year: the village of Kogoma now has a source of [...]

 
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