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HtW Projects in Burkina Faso, Africa


Heal the World currently runs two long-term projects in Burkina Faso, an English Language Institute and a primary school. Both are in the Burkina capitol, Ouagadougou (pronounced "wä-gä-DU-gü") .


Heal the World English Language Institute (ELI). Our ELI opened in summer 2009 with an initial class of 120. We plan for the institute to provide a four-year course of instruction in English to secondary school students who intend to use English in business or to further their education at the university level . . .

 

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Ariel from MaliAriel was born in Koutiala, Mali. He is 18 years old. His first language is French, but he also speaks the local tribal language Bambara, English and basic German. Ariel's father is a teacher, his mother died during labor.

Ariel is 1st in his class. He is a goalkeeper for his soccer team, a drummer, and he enjoys reading. Ariel, while a hard worker, is also naturally very intelligent. He would like to study politics with an emphasis in law. Heal the World is funding his education at Azusa Pacific University




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Student Sponsoships in Burkina Faso
Heal the World has implemented a monthly sponsorship program to support individual students in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.

 

A regular monthly support donation of between US$33 and US$36 covers the direct costs of a student's education. A maximum of 10% of the monthly sponsorship amount is allocated to HtW administration costs, with the remaining 90% going entirely to the student's education costs.


Sponsorships are now available for 250 students attending pre-school, Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grades at Shalom School, an elementary school administered by HtW in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou.

 

Shalom opened as a Kindergarten-only school in 2007, and has been adding classroom capacity for additional grades each year since as part of a building program supported by HtW and other NGOs. For Shalom students these sponsorships cover teacher salaries, textbooks, daily hot lunches and other school costs.

 

Interested in sponsoring a student? Contact us at

sponsor@healtheworld.org for more information or to arrange support.

 



How You Can Help

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Sponsor a Shalom Student!
To pledge monthly support to keep a student in school in Burkina Faso, email us at:

sponsor@healtheworld.org.

 

 

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From buying school supplies and food for kids in Mali, to teaching English or building an elementary school in Burkina Faso, every dollar counts. Donate Now.


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Annual Report


Hundreds screened at Burkina Clinics

More than 400 men, women and children in Ouagadougou were given basic medical and dental screenings in summer 2009 by a visiting Heal the World medical team. The screenings and follow-up treatments were administered during a series of daylong onsite clinics that were run at two HtW-supported schools and also at a church in Ouagadougou, the Burkina Faso capitol.

 

The original intent had been to offer screenings only and to focus primarily on students at HtW schools. After arriving in Burkina Faso the scope of the effort was increased due to demand and thanks to some unexpected cooperation from some very helpful local medical facilities and a pharmaceutical supply.

 

Screenings were given to number of non-student residents who came to the clinics with complaints, and a wide range of medical and dental conditions were treated, said Heather Bobbs, a dentist who co-led the team with her physician husband, Brian Bobb, of Dripping Springs, Texas. Learn more.