Burkinabé Crunch

World Map Project at the Library

ags10 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:32:38 +0000

Bobo Girls Conference

ags10 — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:29:59 +0000

Participants at the 2010 Bobo- Dioulasso Girls Camp

MAY at a glance…

ags10 — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:27:04 +0000

Banfora Child and Materinal Health Workshop

International Women’s Day

ags10 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:14:10 +0000

Here’s how we got down in my hood….

Starting off the day with the women's march

I even joined in!

marching to the ceremony.....

dont worry, the crowd eventually came

Madame of the ceremonies Miriam Traore

coolest woman in all BF

Peer pressure at its worst

dance off

Sabarakan (People of Sabara)

women's organization from katoulo (who helped with my moringa presentation)

Spreading the Moringa Gospel!

ags10 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:01:35 +0000

Alex, Sarah, and me pose with the community of Koutoulou

Alex asserting his computer savy to help save our power point presentation

Sarah and me getting down to the smooth, smooth balaphone

CSPS

ags10 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:18:55 +0000

le centre pour promotion de sante et promoivoir social

I captured the following pics while at the csps for weakly maternal health counseling/baby weighing. Gives you an idea of the local resources in Nianko…. Enjoy!

baby weighting scale and diaper holsters

Soap Success!

ags10 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:42:32 +0000

This past weekend, I made soap with the women of my neighboring compounds as an income generating activity. Three CEG aged girls will sell the soap for 200cfa and slightly larger pieces for 250cfa and use the profits to re-invest in materials to make another batch. This initial batch was started with a micro loan from me that will be paid back over the next 5 batches of soap. . Here are a few of the pics of the process. Real article to come soon!

The crowd gathers on my terrace for the soap demo

stirring the melange, prepping our mold

adding in all the different types of oil

review and question session while the soap hardens

Taaaaa-daaaa soap in our make-shift mold

Tegen’s Six Pups

ags10 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:20:52 +0000

New Books!

ags10 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:24 +0000

Moussa (L) the librarian and my homologue (R)(community counterpart) pose with a group of readers eager to check-out the new stock of livres!

for more about the library I am affiliated with….

visit all4nianko.wordpress.com

Burkina in Newsweek

ags10 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:48:44 +0000

Burkina_Faso_Def

For those of you who missed it…burkina made mainstream media. Check it out!