{"id":4900,"date":"2019-03-16T12:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2020-05-11T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:14:45","slug":"les-amis-de-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2019\/03\/16\/les-amis-de-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Amis de Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11th March 2019 we were lucky to be visited by Gillie Nicholls, founder of the charity Les Amis Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Woman-and-child-Burkina-Faso.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4903 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Woman-and-child-Burkina-Faso-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Burkinabe woman and child working\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Woman-and-child-Burkina-Faso-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Woman-and-child-Burkina-Faso.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Les Amis is a charity which particularly supports <strong>women<\/strong>.\u00a0 The lives of women in Africa can be extremely difficult, but particularly so for those who have given birth to a disabled child. \u00a0This can often lead to the woman and her disabled child being abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Women who find themselves in this situation face not only the difficulties of caring for a disabled child, but also the anguish of being abandoned to a life of poverty and destitution.\u00a0\u00a0Les Amis Burkina Faso\u00a0 makes sure these women have somewhere to turn, and aims to not only provide the financial help so desperately needed, but also encourage the women to help and befriend each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4877 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/20200311_200900-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"President Karen presents a cheque to Gillie Nicholls of Les Amis Burkina Faso\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Burkina-Faso-Girls.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4902 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Burkina-Faso-Girls-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Burkina-Faso-Girls-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/Burkina-Faso-Girls.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Keeping girls in education<\/strong> is an important part of the work of Les Amis as there remain some customs in Burkina Faso which make the girls vulnerable to abusive and undesirable situations.\u00a0 Keeping them in education is a way of protecting them from these customs. The charity is also involved in <strong>protecting young women\u00a0<\/strong>from an\u00a0unwanted early marriage by funding a refuge to which they can turn.\u00a0 At this refuge they are housed, fed, clothed and taught\u00a0several skills such as weaving, embroidery, brewing, soap making, growing crops and animal husbandry.\u00a0 They are also taught how to read and write.\u00a0 With these skills\u00a0they can become self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Gillie drove all the way from Godalming to give us a fascinating talk about the lives of women in Fada N&#8217;Gourma &#8211; where the Les Amis training centre is located, and in Baskoure &#8211; where the charity operates a refuge which supports young women who have run away from forced marriages.\u00a0 Gillie also recounted stories and successes of the seamstresses our Club has helped to support over the years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.les-amis-bf.org.uk\/yoann-f\">You can read more about Les Amis projects in Burkina Faso here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Club President Karen Whitworth presented Gillie with a cheque for \u00a3250 towards the charity&#8217;s work ongoing work in training seamstresses. Club founder member Julia Pinner commented that Gillie&#8217;s talk was the &#8220;most inspiring one she had heard for a long time!&#8221;\u00a0 The lady certainly had a lot of energy and her passion for the work the charity does shone from her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4965 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_1140-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Angela's 80th birthday cake!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_1140-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2020\/05\/IMG_1140.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In addition Founder Member Angela Reynolds celebrated her 80th Birthday in March so Club took the opportunity to bake and eat several lovely cakes in her honour &#8211; such a hardship!<\/p>\n<p>Les Amis Burkina Faso is one of our club&#8217;s ongoing projects, <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/our-work\/fundraising-practical-support\/\">learn more about them here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11th March 2019 we were lucky to be visited by Gillie Nicholls, founder of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":735,"featured_media":4902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[45,46],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-uncategorized","tag-fundraising","tag-les-amis-burkina-faso"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Les Amis de Burkina Faso | News | Blog | Events | SI Lichfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Lichfield and District : Blog &amp; News : Les Amis de Burkina Faso : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Lichfield and District . 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