CHANCE FOR CHANGE
Action COVID-19
Burkina Faso is experiencing one of the highest coronavirus infection rates in Sub-Saharan Africa. The country’s health system counts only 11 ventilators for a population of over 19 million. With the ongoing humanitarian crisis and 840,000 displaced by violence, the situation risks deteriorating rapidly.
SOAP AND MASKS
CFC is extending our education support to include soaps and masks for our students and graduates, to help protect themselves and their families from COVID-19.
We have started buying soap locally in Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso and Koudougou. The girls will each receive two bars a week and enough masks for themselves and their families, for at least the next three months.
As of 27 April, masks have been made compulsory by the Burkina Government. One of the dressmaking workshops partnering with our scholarship program quickly began making masks. CFC hopes to encourage this workshop to make enough of them so that the 70 families in our program can benefit from their supply.
The soap and mask distribution program costs 20 EUR/CHF/USD for every beneficiary for three months.
We welcome your solidarity and generous support to help fund this urgent program.
Agueratou, in her second and last year to become a nursing assistant, participates in a COVID-19 awareness campaign in a village in south central Burkina. It was part of an internship that she started before the lockdown.
Clarissa, a third-year nursing student, managed to finish a required two-month internship in a rural area before confinement was imposed. She now spends her time working on her report for the internship, pausing occasionally to read a book on nursing.
Esther, a second year psychology major, passes the time in her yard reviewing her notes.
Agueratou, in her second and last year to become a nursing assistant, participates in a COVID-19 awareness campaign in a village in south central Burkina. It was part of an internship that she started before the lockdown.
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