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Burkina Faso

Burkinabe Red Cross Society

Sowing the seeds of a better future in the Sahel

Sowing the seeds of a better future in the Sahel

Habsatou Abdulaye, 53, lives in Niaptana – one of many communities in Burkina Faso which regularly face food crises and where the Red Cross has helped women ...

Oroukia and the Red Cross create an oasis of hope in the Sahel

Oroukia and the Red Cross create an oasis of hope in the Sahel

by Sarah Oughton In Niaptana, Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe Red Cross Society has set up two women’s groups with community gardens where they grow vegetables that provid...

A family’s fate rests on a few chickens and hope for rain

A family’s fate rests on a few chickens and hope for rain

By Faye Callaghan, in Burkina Faso Bazam Adizeita is putting all her hope in four scrawny chickens. As they scratch around under her bed in the straw hut, it’s hard to...

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Language of correspondence: French

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  • Présidente nationale: Bana OUANDAOGO/MAIGA
  • Membre: Abel LOMBO
  • Membre: Alidou Christophe DIEBRE
  • 1er Vice-Président: Dénis BAKYONO
  • Membre: Georges OUEDRAOGO
  • Membre: Haoua OUEDRAOGO
  • Membre: Larba YARGA
  • Membre: Patricia TAMINI
  • Membre: Patricia ZAIDA/BAMBARA
  • 2ème Vice-Pésidente: Adèle CONGO
  • Secretary General: Maïga WELETI
  • Directeur National: Wéléti MAIGA
  • Trésorier Général: Agnès KABORE/OUATTARA
  • Secrétaire Administratif: Abou OUATTARA

Latest appeals

16 April 2012
Food insecurity (MDRBF011)
Burkina Faso - Emergency Appeal
6 March 2012
Population Movement (MDRBF012)
Burkina Faso - DREF Operation
16 December 2011
Food Insecurity (MDRBF011)
Burkina Faso - DREF Operation
16 December 2011
Burkina Faso - Food Insecurity (MDRBF011)
Burkina Faso - Donor Response
27 October 2011
Floods (MDRBF010)
Burkina Faso - Final Report

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