Placements in Burkina Faso
These are our local partners involved in ICS placements from 2012-15.
Handicap Solidaire Burkina
This NGO helps disabled people to lead an independent life. Managed and staffed by people with disabilities, their activities include:
- producing and repairing wheelchairs and tricycles
- supporting disabled people to make and sell crafts
- supporting disabled people to take part in sport
- promoting disabled people’s human rights
- providing literacy and skills training for disabled people
Volunteers will help them advance their work in: improving the services they offer to disabled people; advocating for disabled people’s rights; improving their wheelchair workshop; and addressing issues of gender and disability.
http://www.handicapsolidaire.ch/
https://www.facebook.com/HandicapSolidaire
Tigoung Nonma
Meaning 'Strength Through Unity' in the local language, this disabled artisan’s co-operative is based in Handicap Solidaire’s head office.
It currently has 61 members (37 women, and 24 men).
Their activities include: carpentry, leatherworking, dress-making, running a craft boutique, and running a small restaurant.
Volunteers will support Tigoung Nonma in making their business grow: developing marketing strategies for their products and restaurant; ensuring the quality of what they produce is consistent; and learning how to keep their accounts and manage their resources more effectively.
http://www.handicapsolidaire.ch/en/partenaires/cooperative-tigoung-nonma/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tigoung-Nonma/355832197760222Kabeela
This organisation aims to improve the quality of life of women and reduce poverty in 85 villages throughout the Central Plateau Region of Burkina Faso.
Women are one of the most marginalised groups in Burkinabe society; they have little say in terms of their rights, and little impact over family and community decisions. Kabeela help women through training in business skills, agriculture, literacy, health and sexual health.
Volunteers will support Kabeela in developing their fundraising abilities, how to manage the activities they undertake, and how to develop their administrative and financial processes.
https://www.facebook.com/asskabeelaDjigui Espoir
Meaning ‘Hope’ in the local language, Djigui Espoir fights extreme poverty amongst disabled women by providing them with access to income-generating activities adapted to their disability.
The association has 32 members, 23 of whom have disabilities.
They have begun making soy products and running outside catering. However, the main activity is still the packaging of millet cereal which is not sufficient to provide everyone with employment opportunities.
Volunteers will support Djigui Espoir in advancing the women’s business skills, strengthening existing markets and developing new ones, and advocating for the rights of disabled people.