The Centre of Lumbila, in progress, will welcome eventually 150 children from 0 to 16 years old. The orphanage is managed by the sisters Marie-Claire and Marie-Thérèse, the members of the Monastic community of the Worker Missionaries, who are present and active in numerous developing countries.
 

Thanks to the networks which they developed by means   other associations (in the USA, in Spain, in Italy), the children are accommodated, fed, looked after and schooled on the spot.
 

The objective is to return this auto-sufficient  orphanage and to assure the education and the forming of the children up to their entrance to the active life.
 

The 14 hectare ground was given up by the municipality. Four buildings were already built as well as a well and a water tower.
 

The construction of dormitories and places of life continues for several years. A nursery school of 3 classes was opened, assuring the schooling and the elimination of illiteracy in the small. A training centre should soon allow to assure(insure) the forming(training) of the biggest thanks to workshops of learning of the traditional craft (work of the wood, the mechanics, the sewing)
 

The centre is already organized for the food autosufficiency: a kitchen garden is maintained by the oldest children, and the breeding of numerous animals (hens, rabbits, cows, goats) comes to complete the food contribution.
 

Besides, the orphanage dashed successfully into the culture of an alga " the spiruline ". This alga, used in Europe as food complement in slimming diets (!), is given to the children to fight the food deficiencies. The orphanage sells its superfluous production.

In 2005 was set up a program of "sponsorings" aiming at financing the schooling of the children who frequent the school of the orphanage. Indeed, in Burkina, the Department of Education does not pay the teachers whose salary stays chargeable to the relatives(parents) of the children.

Thanks to the commitment of their respective godfathers and godmothers, all the children of the orphanage, as well as those of the village subscribers at the school, are at present insured to pursue a free schooling. News are exchanged regularly by mail or via internet
 

To date, the main sectors of the project are:

• The reception of the young orphans and the underprivileged children,
   

• The education and the vocational training of the children,

• The socioeconomic reintegration,

• The administration of the centre,

• The development of generative activities of incomes for the autonomy of the centre.

2003 - OPERATION " SCHOOL FOR ALL"

• The project was conceived to be modular and stretchable. He(it) also fits into a local and honorable dynamics the nearby population.

• In 2003, the construction of the training centre started by the construction of 3 classes of 83,60 m ² being able to welcome 144 children. The orphanage is perfectly integrated into the life of the nearby village.

• Every classroom can welcome 48 pupils and includes the equipment necessary for this strength. The cost price of every class is of: 13.609,80 Euro is for 3 classes 40.829,40 Euro.

• In 2005, 3 supplementary classes were built, as well as a library and a court.

• This year of 2006, a dining hall is in the process of being built.

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