French Farmers Fight The Saharan Heat

 

Topsoba and Sam are two students from the Pan-Saharan workshop that was conducted in Dakar, Senegal in 2006. At this workshop, eight different Saharan African nations were represented. These two graduates have returned to their home of Burkina Faso to share their knowledge with others.

 

Since receiving their training three years ago, they have conducted four workshops of their own in which they have trained hundreds of their neighbors. They have done this with little financial support. In fact, they have had such limited finances that they could not afford a plastic bucket to be used for drip irrigation. Instead of allowing this to hold them back, they manufactured their own system using ancient clay pots.

 

In their most recent workshop, Topsoba and Sam trained 60 men and women from the surrounding villages. In most African communities, farming is a family activity and it is necessary that the women also participate in the survival garden training since they will be doing much of the work.

 

If you are interested in learning more about agricultural projects of HHI, click here or you can contact ag director, David Goolsby at (615) 832-2000.

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