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Exploring Northern Burkina Faso (Feb 2010)

We traveled to the Sahel Reserve in Northern Burkina Faso. We started in Markoye and then went to Oursi (where we slept on dunes and met Ousséini - our wonderful guide) via Gorom-Gorom. On the way to Reo, we stopped in Bani where we visited a mosque under reconstruction which had been damaged after heavy rains.

Baobank in Action (Feb 2010)

We met with more groups and held training sessions in Réo and nearby villages. As always, everyone was very hospitable and we had a wonderful time.

Back from Burkina

Again a great trip in February 2010, with visits to Sahel (Oursi, Markoye) followed by meetings with women from CDN. Many discussions, many experiences, difficult to land back in Europe. Loans are getting there and trainings were very interesting to follow and to give. Hopefully new loans will be defined and agreed by CDN in the next weeks.

On our Facebook page you can hear chants from our trip and soon we'll post more pictures there too ...

10 New Groups!

Last November our local partner, the association CDN launched 6 new loans. According last news we had, payments are being done ontime without any problem to record. Fred and Xavi will visit those 6 groups of women end of February to evaluate the efficiency of such loans. Plus we'll have the greatest experience with the training of 10 new groups of women, an assistance of around 50 to 70 people can be expected!

Burkina Faso in February

Xavi and Fred are preparing for another visit to Burkina Faso at the end of February. They're looking forward to training 10 new groups of women that hope to use microloans to grow their businesses.