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Humanitarian and Development
Place
Korsimoro, Burkina Faso
Sponsor
Jean-Pierre Thévenon
Grant(s)
20,000 € to the Selection Committee at 2006/01/31
Project leader
Ouaga
« The Caroline School construction project in Korsimoro is based on a similar, and successful, experience. It will blend in with village life, not disrupt it. Unfortunately, some of the initiatives undertaken in Burkina Faso are carried out in a disorganized way. »
Jean-Pierre Thévenon
Burkina Faso's education index is below 25%, one of the factors that put it into 175th place out of 177 countries in the Human Development Index of the United Nations. A few HEC students wanted to change that so they got together and created Ouaga as a way of bringing lasting improvement in education to the country.
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After succeeding in getting one school built in the village of Pissila, in 2004, Ouaga is going back to work in 2006, this time, in Korsimoro, a small town in an impoverished region in the north-central part of the country. There, the organization concentrated on the final stage in the school's construction: improvements to existing rooms. A well, lunchroom and three new classrooms (one of which is a library) have been added to the initial project. This enables the school to serve twice as many children.
* A Catholic organization devoted to development and outreach