Hola euroafrican friends!!
Sa ka ramba????!!! (How are you??!!)
Hi from Cristina and all sector 19 of Ouagadougou!!
Here time is great. I still didn’t understand the reason why the “europeen people” talk a lot about Africa just in terms of economy, poverty, lack of money, need of charity or opportunity to gain profit, etc.. Yes, this is true, the economy and the capitalism is not developed as in “Occident”, (maybe this s not totally a pity), but in terms of culture, good mood and habits, the Burkina Faso is a land rich, precious. Also from the point of view of the protection of cultural roots and tradition, the solidarity, the friendship among the people (also with the “White nassara”), I really think that they are more developed than us.
Well, today I wants to introduce you the activity of Mjca named “Parascolaire”. There are a lot of professionist and animators involved in this Project: sometimes the children have the chance to meet artist of theatre, and also griots and storytellers. The activities are always introduced by a session improvised by musicians and animators of Mjca (djimbè, singers, dans). In the 2nd and 3rd photoes below you can see my friends Jah Ahmad and Bovard: they entertein well the children with their crazy marionettes, djimbè, African songs and acrobats. Then, there is a time for amusement and to have fun for the children, but also to learn and to do “sensibilisation”!! This is the reason why Mjca is always busy to promote social theme as “The journèe mondial du paludisme”. The volunteers organised a petit show to sensibilise the population about the malaria (it’is more developed here). We also gaved out to public the brochure with info and contact with the medical facilities. In the 1rd photo below you can see my friends Safi, Margot, Madame Rabot (they travel for Mjca), and then Jasmina Badolo, my tutor and president of the association Dunia la vie. Last but not least my friend Denis and me went often to local schools to promote activities of Mjca, and… what a surprise!! We had the chance to attend the “journèe of defilèe”. So in this festivity the schoolchildrens have the chance to dress in traditional habits of the different ethnie burkinabè (Mossi, Bissa, Gourounssi, Peull, etc)... What you see in the last foto is a dress of “Mossi people”, the ethnie more common at Ouagadougou.