The provincial directorate of preschool, primary and non-formal education of the province of Zoundwéogo presented, on Friday, to the High Commissioner of Zoundwéogo, Julien Ouédraogo, the receipt for payment of the sum of 1,718,000 FCFA for the contribution of service actors to the Patriotic Support Fund. A gesture to which was added a donation of food and non-food items, estimated at 834,350 FCFA in total, for Internally Displaced Students (EDI).
‘We have decided to play our part by collecting in-kind donations to support internally displaced students and cash donations to respond to the appeal of the Head of State in order to contribute to the peace effort,’ said , Friday, the provincial director of preschool, primary and non-formal education (DPEPPNF) of Zoundwéogo, Yves Placide Nana, during the official delivery of donations and payment receipt to the Patriotic Support Fund.
Mr. Nana gave the motivations of the actors in his management who took an active part in making the initiative a reality.
He not
ed, in fact, that it was in response to the call for solidarity launched on February 13, 2024, on the occasion of the first edition of the Zoundwéogo Provincial Solidarity Week, that the actors of the community educational institutions have ‘made their hearts speak for the reconquest of our dignity, the integrity of our territory and the recovery of people affected by the security crisis, in particular internally displaced students’.
‘The CCEBs (Basic Education District Heads, editor’s note), supervisors, teachers, office staff, parents and students; all stakeholders in the educational community have joined the initiative,’ said the DPEPPNF of Zoundwéogo.
The contributions of everyone, in all the seven Basic Education Districts of the Zoundwéogo province, made it possible to raise the sum of 1,718,000 FCFA, deposited in the Public Treasury on the account of the Patriotic Support Fund .
‘We collected this cash donation to respond to the call from the Head of State to support the peace effort,’ recalled Yves
Placide Nana. Concurrently with the cash collection, he added, a collection of in-kind donations was made from stakeholders to support the internally displaced students that the Zoundwéogo province welcomed.
It made it possible to bring together food and non-food items, composed, among other things, of soap, detergents, shoes, clothes, corn, millet, sorghum, rice and spaghetti.
‘These donations, estimated at a value of 834,350 CFA francs, will be given to 460 internally displaced students,’ said the High Commissioner of Zoundwéogo, Julien Ouédraogo, who chaired the ceremony.
Convinced that the gesture will ‘help give a little joy to internally displaced students’, he expressed his gratitude to the entire Zoundwéogo educational community and in particular to the students who actively participated in the operation.
The beneficiaries, through their representatives, also thanked the donors while promising to make good use of the products received. Jeanne Kinda and Athanase Nobila Kinda, respectively members o
f the Association of Mother Educators (AME) and the Association of Parents of Students (APE), also did not fail to salute the entire educational community for their be subscribed to the momentum of solidarity and the peace effort through their donations in kind and in cash.
‘We urge the parents of students and the various CEBs who have received these donations to use them wisely for the benefit of these children so that this galvanizes them and encourages them to work more to get out of this rut of penance,’ insisted Athanase Nobila Kinda.
Source: Burkina Information Agency