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Pink Caravan on visit in Nakamtenga

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Tuesday the 29th of November the Pink Caravan arrived to Yennenga Progress ”Centre de l’Esprit Ouvert” in Nakamtenga, Burkina Faso. For the Pink Caravan group the travel had started in Accra 18 days ago. They had visited different places in Ghana, Togo and Benin before arriving to Burkina Faso. After some days in and around the capital Ouagdouogou, the travel is planed to continue to Mali, Senegal and Gambia. 

Thanks to Yennenga Networker Birgitta Köhler, who travelled with the Pink Caravan last year, the Pink Caravan are now part of our network and happy to visit our heroes around the world! The group stayed at the Centre in Nakamtenga one whole day. They took part in the schoolwork and were very impressed by the performance of the children. They were informed about the computer based training that is given on different levels. A lunch was served to celebrate together with the group who got an extra chance to get to know the staff at the Centre and representatives from the Nakamtenga Youth and Foot ball Club.

Before leaving, the leader of the Pink Caravan group said that a visit to Nakamtenga will probably become one steady point in the programme of the West Africa tour in the future! So if you like to travel in an adventurous way and want to visit the projects – sign up for a trip with the Pink Caravan!

 

 

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Thank you Radiohjälpen for your support!

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Yesterday we received the good news that Radiohjälpen decided to support one of our many interesting projects! Yennenga IT!

A very inspiring man: Jean Ouba, made a big decision some months ago: To say no to a secure employment that would have given him a good salary every month. Instead he decided to start a project, that he really believes will change the world – and we believe so too!!

He has put up a computer hall, or you could call it a cybercafé. He is giving computer classes to small children, teenagers, analphabets and others. All this in a tiny little village in Burkina Faso, West Africa!

This opens the world! The project creates the necessary conditions for learning and good educational opportunities for children, but also for adolescents and adults! It is a way to make the countryside bloom and creates an opportunity to stay and not move to bigger cities. The access to Internet also contributes to fun and meaningful activities on free time!

With the help of online courses, we can continue to carry out further training of the teachers at the preschool of Nakamtenga, both in pedagogy, leadership and development of educational material. But Mr Ouba also finds online courses in various subjects for all ages. Long term, this contributes to enabling the wider lifelong learning that creates commitment and interest in community development and poverty reduction.

We hope that the Cyber café / computer room also will give the village’s young people a venue for dialogue and for growing. Long term, we hope to run an incubator of activities to create employment for these young people in the area.

The cybercafé is complemented by a service center with the possibility of copying, printing, etc, which is a sought-after business. It is far to the nearest possibility for such services, but necessary because of the country’s administrative system based on a big amount of paper, stamps and copies. By providing this service and charging a small fee for the courses, we aim to meet the costs of the resource center already within the coming year.

We are proud to say that Nakamtenga is developing and becoming a natural reference to rural development in the area – and to all of us!

Supporting initiatives of people like Jean Ouba – true Yennenga Networkers – is supporting a revolution of entrepreneurship, love and engagement that will change the world!

 

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Computer training opens the world

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In Nakamtenga, a small remote village in Burkina Faso, the world is open. Since some month a computer training hall is open to the youth in the village and neighbour villages. Jean Ouoba, a young dedicated ITC consultant from Ziniaré, comes to the village every day to teach children, teenagers and young adults how to use a computer and how use internet. In the classes for children, the youngest participant is 4 years old.

The training is not just how to handle a computer, Jean uses the computers to train the children in math and other skills with the help of special designed training tools. He has also a class of non literate young people who learn to read and right with the support of computer programs.

The initiative was first a test to see if the people in the villages should be interested. In a meeting with the parents some weeks ago they urged Jean to continue with this training. The parents said: “this training has opened the eyes of our children and now when the eyes are open, they have to stay open, so please continue with the training!”

The computer training is one project in a range of projects which are under planning together with Yennenga Progress.

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