Transcript Christian Aid

ODE, Burkina Faso
Office de Développement des Eglises Évangéliques
Climate change is a
Christian Aid priority. It
is happening now and it is
affecting the poor first and
will affect them worst.
People who have never
benefited from
industrialisation are
suffering its
consequences.
Why is Christian
Aid supporting
ODE?
Burkina Faso is seventh from the bottom
on the UN Human Development Index
and on the front line of climate change.
The average GDP is just $1,265pa
80% of Burkinabe rely on farming and
fishing for their livelihood. They often
lack the knowledge and the country
lacks the infrastructure for them to
pursue other livelihoods.
Burkina Faso lies just south of the
Sahara, which is advancing at a rate of
300m a year, turning agricultural land
into scrub and scrub into desert.
Life expectancy is 55 years and the
average age is 16.
Passore
Province
Burkina
Faso
Passore
Province
receives just
70cm of rain a
year.
It all falls in a
few months.
Most of the last
30 years have
been classified
as droughts.
Market Gardens – people living hand to mouth are often
wary of changing crops, even if they’re told the new crop
will provide them with more food. Market gardens,
tended by the community as a whole, showcase new
varieties of crops and provide produce for sale.
New seeds – ODE will distribute seeds of cereals well
suited to the dry environment.
Improve access to loans and credit – the poorest people
are always those trapped by poverty. They have few
assets and banks are unwilling to lend them money, but
without start up costs they are unable to explore new
farming techniques and business options.
The
solution
Training – ODE will teach farmers how to care for the
new crops and support the farmer-led research groups.
Drying equipment – will mean that food grown in the wet
season can be eaten and sold all year round.
Past success
With your help ODE
will be able to
replicate the
successes they have
had elsewhere and
change lives in
Passore Province.
With ODE’s help
Michel Sebego has
tripled his harvest.
Since ODE came to
her village Asseta
Ouedraogo has
prospered and
recently brought a
bicycle with the
profits. Now she can
take her produce
even further.
Here Priest Elie
Kabore inspects a well
that was dug more
than 40 years ago.
The reduced rainfall
means this well is now
dry – but because of
ODE’s help Elie’s
village has access to
clean water and is
thriving in spite of
climate change.
Your support means that ODE will be able to
replicate the success they have had in the
past in Passore Province. Thank you.