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Burkina: The “EPREUVES” project launched for the benefit of displaced people in Boudry
Zorgho, August 10, 2022 (AIB)-The Tropical Livestock Production and Training Center (CEPROFET) launched on Thursday July 21, 2022 in Boudry, a project called “Livestock for displaced people: an exemplary response to unity , living together and solidarity” (EPREUVES).
This project, financed by the fund reserved for innovative projects of civil societies and coalitions of actors (PISCCA) of the Embassy of France, aims to reduce the social and economic vulnerability of internally displaced women/girls by supporting the implementation of livestock micro-projects in ten villages of the Commune of Boudry.
The launch ceremony of the “EPREUVES” project took place in the meeting room of the Town Hall of Boudry under the chairmanship of the High Commissioner of Ganzourgou, Ambroise Ouédraogo and in the presence of the Chargé de mission of the French Embassy, Thomas Gilquain .
According to Mr. Gilquain, this project is one of the ten projects that the French Embassy is supporting with the PISCCA fund for this year 2022. He was delighted to see the direct beneficiaries of the project.
“We are very happy to be able to meet them and very proud to see the work that has been implemented by CEPROFET,” he said. According to him, the EPREUVES project is financed to the tune of 36 million CFA francs by the French Embassy.
He thanked CEPORFET for the relevance of the project and hoped that its implementation could contribute to increasing the resilience of the beneficiaries. For the Executive Director of CEPROFET, Romuald Sawadogo, it is a joy that the EPREUVES project has been selected.
For him, the activities of the project began last May and will continue until December 31, 2022. Sixty internally displaced women from ten villages in the municipality of Boudry are targeted by the project. They have already benefited from training in poultry and goat farming and have received certificates.
To enable them to get started, each of the women trained in poultry farming received a mobile chicken coop, 20 hens and 2 roosters, poultry feed, a water trough and a manger. As for those trained in goat breeding, each received two goats, a billy goat, a mobile pen and goat food.
To meet their own pressing food needs, they have all received rice, oil and soap. For Mr. Sawadogo, the EPREUVES project aims to support the reconstitution of the means of subsistence of internally displaced women and girls in the breeding of small ruminants and poultry, to improve the availability of food and veterinary services in the host localities, to support emerging promoters in the incubation of their projects in order to facilitate their integration into entrepreneurship, access to credit and the local market.
The project also wants to promote inclusive social communication towards institutional actors and local authorities to facilitate the economic empowerment of beneficiaries in a framework of peaceful coexistence and social cohesion. “It is planned to help the beneficiaries to form a cooperative to better sell their products,” he said.
He thanked the local administrative authorities, customary and religious leaders whose involvement helps to strengthen unity, living together, peaceful coexistence and social cohesion within the communities hosting IDPs.
The first Vice-president of the special delegation of Boudry, Naba Kontouem-goulbo 2 indicated that there are more than 1300 IDPs in Boudry. He commended the efforts of CEPROFET in their support and thanked the French Embassy for its contribution to the empowerment of internally displaced women.
He invited the beneficiaries to work to give confidence to the donors. For the representative of the beneficiaries, it is a joy to have benefited from the training and to receive more material.
“We left our homes without taking anything,” she said. On behalf of her peers, she thanked the initiators of the project and wished for more support to be able to succeed in their activities. She expressed the wish that peace return to the country so that everyone can return to their homes.
High Commissioner Ambroise Ouédraogo welcomed the support received by CEPROFET. He hailed the dynamism of bilateral cooperation between France and Burkina Faso. He urged the beneficiaries to take their work seriously and hoped that at the time of the assessment, the women would be integrated into their host families. The ceremony ended with a planting of trees in the courtyard of the Town Hall.
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