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Burkina Faso

Enable displaced children to continue attending school in a safe and protecting environment

Enfants du Monde / Goldbach

From 2021

65 097

students

1 426

teachers

325

educational institutions

On the mandate of the global fund Education Cannot Wait, we ensure that vulnerable children aged 3 to 17 who find themselves in emergency situations following attacks by armed groups on their villages, continue receiving quality education in the region of Central-East Burkina Faso, through the “Support for the Resilience of the National Education System”  project. 

Hervé Palm

Act to keep children in school

Our teams, both in Switzerland and locally on the field, work to provide better access to education, to ensure its continuity, in safe, protective environments for schoolchildren aged between 3 and 17, who have been displaced, are refugees, or come from vulnerable host families.

We also provide our support to the Ministry, for proper coordination and follow up on our different operations. 

Our impact

  • Training teachers; 
  • Reinforcing the teaching skills of teaching staff; 
  • Building classrooms; 
  • Adapting educational infrastructures to natural catastrophe risks (flooding, violent winds, draughts); 
  • Reopening of closed educational facilities in stabilized zones; 
  • Adapting school programmes to prevent school dropouts; 
  • Coordination and follow-up support with the Ministry;   
  • Improving access to education to keep girls and vulnerable children schooled; 
  • Creation of inclusive spaces; 
  • Distribution of hygiene kits to girls; 
  • Building water points and toilets; 
  • Hygiene education;  
  • Providing foodstuffs for school canteens ; 
  • Distribution of birth certificates to girls and children affected by crisis. 
Hervé Palm

Aicha, 10 years old, internally displaced pupil

I used to work in agriculture and farming with my parents in the village. I didn’t go to school. Now I’m happy to attend school and to learn with my classmates. 

Tougma Téné SANKARA, coordinateur régional

Contact our team

Enfants du Monde
Coordination office in Sahelian Africa
01 BP 1793 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso 

Tougma Téné Sankara
Tel. +226 25 36 08 46
Email : edmsahel@fasonet.bf 

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