Burkina Faso, ex-Alto Volta, is a french ex-colony that began independent in 1960. Burkina Faso - “Land of Integrity Men” – received this name from the inforgettable president Thomas Sankara, in 1983.
Located in West Africa, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, north suffers problems due to drought and desertification. In the south west, the rains are quite intense in some periods of the year, which allows for subsistence farming.

Our country, like many others in Africa, has an enormous agricultural and cattle potentiality; it is necessary, however, to adopt really realizable initiatives to win the challenge of exploring the resources of the land. It is also the only alternative to acquire a growth of the agricultural productivity, of the cattle-raising and of the quality of life.

President Sankara has led his people to consume products burkinabé to safeguard our coin. In the same way that we asked for our people to dispose exclusively of the strength itself, we have to allow equally that it values and appreciates what it produces with the sweat itself.
The will to implement the wise words received, we decided to create a school for training and experiment about the rough-ecology on behalf of the population, inspired in the ideas and philosophy of our young President. Sankara was the only president who wanted to lead his people according to the reality of his country, fighting the corruption, marginalization of women, illiteracy and the economic crisis. This is the only way to build the future of mother earth!

In our country, the agricultural activities cease after the harvest, in December, causing the exodus of the young persons.

But it is possible to stimulate their permanence in their land, during the dry period, if we apply the thought of Sankara: “the drought is is first of all the physical phenomenon of the absence of rain. And we cannot do anything for that, it is not our fault it does not rain.

But we must work at least, be studying and think to envisage the periods of dryness and take all necessary mésures to supply the population with food and with water.

Which means to cultivate, build silos for the stock of the grain, conserve rain water in appropriate dams and use it carefully to irrigate, before the arrival of the drought. We can not just wait for it with self-sacrificing spirit.”