Emilie Crofton, a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, has been working very hard all year to start a library in Pobe-Mengao, in northern Burkina Faso. Yesterday she learned that the library received a grant of $2,000 from the ex-Peace Corps association, Friends of Burkina Faso. That put the total fundraising for Pobe-Mengao above the $10,000 threshold that FAVL has for becoming a full-fledged FAVL-managed library.
We're very excited, and welcome the library to the Burkina Faso group- now numbering eight (Pobe, Bereba, Koumbia, Karaba, Sara, Dohoun, Dimikuy, and Boni). Wow!
This is FAVL's 9th year, and if someone had asked me in 2001 whether in 2010 we would be operating eight libraries, very successfully, in Burkina Faso, I would have been skeptical. Not to mention libraries in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, and the growing-like-gangbusters Uganda Community Libraries Association... Lots of hard work and dedication by all.
We're very excited, and welcome the library to the Burkina Faso group- now numbering eight (Pobe, Bereba, Koumbia, Karaba, Sara, Dohoun, Dimikuy, and Boni). Wow!
This is FAVL's 9th year, and if someone had asked me in 2001 whether in 2010 we would be operating eight libraries, very successfully, in Burkina Faso, I would have been skeptical. Not to mention libraries in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania, and the growing-like-gangbusters Uganda Community Libraries Association... Lots of hard work and dedication by all.
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