Blog Hervé Millet
Zo’n 3 keer per jaar gaat A.S.A.P.’s oprichter en directeur Hervé Millet naar Burkina Faso om te zien hoe het ervoor staat met de projecten van de stichting. Tijdens deze bezoeken houdt hij een weblog bij waarin hij beschrijft wat hij tegenkomt in de dorpen en hoe het de dorpelingen en de projecten vergaat. Lees hieronder zijn laatste belevenissen.
Blog 4 augustus 2010
Sorry! Translation is not ready yet.I am already back in The Netherlands since 4 days and I have not yet written the last message for this trip in Burkina Faso. It is not that nothing happened.
On Saturday arrival of Arend (from our board in NL) and of Désiré (back from vacation). For Arend it is his first contact with Africa. You will not be surprised if I tell you that I had a “plan” for them.
Sunday we went to the town of Banfora (80 km from Bobo and 50km from the border with Ivory Coast) where we have a large number of scholarship holders in boarding schools. The idea was to discussed with the 2 supervisors of the children to see how we can better follow them up and give them support. It was interesting and we have agreed on a few points which hopefully will avoid to have surprises regarding the results of the children. We had 38 last year in the schools in Banfora (22 girls and 16 boys). Unfortunately 7 of them (6 girls and 1 boy) have not made it for the coming year. We have realized too late that we had some information which should have helped us to take some decision. Sometime decisions are very hard to take, but not taking them create even more problems. Taking into account that we will add around 17 additional scholarships for the coming year, it is important that we invest in close follow up of the children.
Monday was a selection day in the village of Toungana. Children from 5 villages were invited to come and speak with us. Some of the children were for the secondary school scholarships in Banfora and others for vocational training in Bobo (welder, electrician, sewing). It was a long day with interviews of 44 children. It is always difficult to have the children speak. Answer to a question is often one word: yes or no. However through the few minutes spent with each of them we can make some comparison. Finally we have to take some decision, very often not easy.
Blog 25 juli 2010
Sorry! Translation is not ready yet.Our third week in Burkina did not include trip outside of Bobo Dioulasso, but we enough to keep us busy here.
First let me follow up on the saga of Mogobasso. Summary of the previous episodes:
Episode 1: because of bad debt, bad attitude, no reaction to our call, we told them early July that we are stopping all activities with them, including support to the nursery school and the primary school.
Episode 2: a few of the men of the villages thought that we were bluffing and there was still no reaction. It seems that it is only 3 to 4 men who do not like ASAP helping the village to develop. They are probably thinking that they will loose some of their power if other villagers start to think.
New episodes:
Episode 3: my first reaction was to confront those people and try to make them understand that it was also their advantage if the village develops. After discussion with our local advisers, we went for another strategy. We inform them that the next day we would come to pick up all material of the nursery school: benches, tables, ….
Blog 18 juli 2010
Sorry! Translation is not ready yet.Second week of this trip.
The rainy season seems to have started at last. We had 2 nice rains during this week and you can se people really busy in the fields.
For farmers it is always a dilemma to decide when to seed. They are waiting for the first rains to work their land. Those rains are not always coming at the same period. We have been measuring the rain falls in our farm in the
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