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		<title>(English) US Embassy Brings Peace to America</title>
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		<title>(English) Sister City Signs in Great Barrington to be Unveiled</title>
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		<title>(English) Boston Globe: Interact Students Help Power BARKA&#8217;s Work</title>
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		<title>(English) Endicott Student Reps BARKA at Harvard&#8217;s Model UN</title>
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		<title>Marblehead, MA Students, Families to Race for Peace, Wisdom &amp; Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click hereto see the story in the Marblehead Reporter about the Peace, Water &#038; Wisdom Race on October 28.  Join us! By Staff reports Marblehead Reporter Posted Oct 15, 2012 @ 11:14 PM Marblehead —...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Click <a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/news/x1826354835/Marblehead-students-families-to-race-for-Peace-Water-Wisdom">here</a>to see the story in the Marblehead Reporter about the Peace, Water &#038; Wisdom Race on October 28.  Join us!</p>
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<div><a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead">Marblehead Reporter</a></div>
<div title="2012-10-15T23:14:24Z">Posted Oct 15, 2012 @ 11:14 PM</div>
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<div>Scores of Marblehead students, their families and friends are expected to turn out Sunday, Oct. 28 to walk and race for “Peace, Water &#038; Wisdom.” The event is a fundraiser for the BARKA Foundation, which works with local communities in the U.S. to raise water consciousness and implement water initiatives in Burkina Faso, Africa, one of the poorest and most water-stressed nations in the world.</div>
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<div>The 5K “Peace, Water &#038; Wisdom Race/Walk” around the Marblehead Neck is being sponsored by the Interact Club at Marblehead High School with support from Endicott College. Endicott students are helping MHS Interacters with marketing, outreach and publicity. MHS Interact students are affiliated with Rotary. Rotary clubs in Marblehead and Swampscott are working with BARKA Foundation to support a forthcoming water project in a village in Burkina Faso where women walk 7 kilometers (over 4 miles) for water every day.</div>
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<div>The event is also being coordinated with the Student Environmental Action Committee of John Bapst High School in Bangor, Maine, which established the Peace, Water &#038; Wisdom Race/Walk in Bangor last year. Earlier this year, SEAC students from Bapst High School reached out to Marblehead High School’s Interact Club as a result of both groups working with BARKA Foundation for the past three years.</div>
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<div>Joan Stomatuk, Jim Nye and Jack Attridge serve as liaisons between Marblehead students, BARKA Foundation and local Rotary clubs. “After speaking with student leaders from Bapst High School, I presented this opportunity to the MHS Interact Club, and they were excited to expand the race to Marblehead,” said Joan Stomatuk, Interact Club advisor. Kelly Roland and Brian Hough, co-presidents of the Interact Club, said, “When we returned to school, we hit the ground running. The club decided to take this on because we believe in the cause and BARKA’s ability to use the funds we raise to make people’s lives better in Burkina Faso.” The club has set its fundraising goal for $5,000. Funds are raised through sponsorship, individual donations and event registrations.</div>
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<div>“The truly remarkable thing is the way we see young people stepping up to take on their role as leaders to bring positive changes to the world,” said Ina and Esu Anahata, BARKA’s co-founders. Students are already signing up sponsors and participants to race or walk. The race takes place at Devereux Beach beginning at 10 a.m. (on-site registration begins at 9 a.m.). Registration is also available online at <a href="http://peacewaterwisdom.org/" target="_blank">peacewaterwisdom.org</a>.</div>
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<div>Burkina Faso is a landlocked West African country, which has a 20-percent infant mortality rate largely due preventable water-borne illness. Money collected will be used to provide the community of Lampiadi with a new well and basic hygiene education. Earlier this year, BARKA drilled a well and constructed composting latrines in a small rural Burkina Faso village partly through funds raised by Marblehead students and community members.</div>
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<div>The BARKA Foundation is a UN-affiliated 501(c)3 charitable organization. “Barka” is an African word of gratitude, blessing and reciprocity. More information can be found at <a href="http://barkafoundation.org/" target="_blank">barkafoundation.org</a>.</div>
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<div>To be a sponsor, make a donation or register for the Marblehead event, email <a href="mailto:stomatuk.joan@marbleheadschools.org">stomatuk.joan@marbleheadschools.org</a>. Registration and sponsor forms are also available in the main office of Marblehead High School, 2 Humphrey St., Marblehead.</div>
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		<title>Bapst HS Students Race for Peace, Water &amp; Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch TV coverage of the event from NBC News Affiliate WLBZ-TV. BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)&#8211; Students from John Bapst converged on the Bangor Waterfront for the second annual Peace Water and Wisdom race. Students partnered...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wlbz2.com/news/article/217991/3/John-Bapsts-students-run-for-change">Watch TV coverage of the event from NBC News Affiliate WLBZ-TV.</a> <strong></strong> <strong>BANGOR, Maine</strong> (NEWS CENTER)&#8211; Students from John Bapst converged on the Bangor Waterfront for the second annual Peace Water and Wisdom race. Students partnered with BARKA, a nonprofit organization, to awareness to the need of sanitary water in other countries. All proceeds benefit villages in Western Africa. DJ Brooks, one of the student organizers, said the very distance of the race has a meaning, &laquo;&nbsp;The 5k amount is symbolic for how far an individual has to walk to get five gallons of water.&nbsp;&raquo; John Bapst is one of a dozen New England schools that partnered with the BARKA foundation to bring clean water to other countries. Last year, the race brought out a hundred runners and raised over one thousand dollars. The students hard work paid off and they were able to dig a well for the people of Burkina-Faso. BARKA Foundation co-founder, Ina Anahata, said the students immediately went to work once they heard about the situation in other countries. Anahata said, &laquo;&nbsp;These kids have decided to do something about it. They are truly global citizens and we are very, very grateful.&nbsp;&raquo; This year student hope to raise over five thousand dollars. For more information on how to get involved or participate in future races visit <a href="http://www.peacewaterwisdomrace.org/"><strong>The Peace, Water, and Wisdom race website.</strong></a></p>
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		<title>BARKA Twins Great Barrington &amp; Fada in 1st Sister City Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 19, 2012 GREAT BARRINGTON After more than 3 years of planning and organizing with the town governments of Great Barrington, MA and Fada N&#8217;Gourma, Burkina Faso, BARKA&#8217;s 1st sister-city proposal was inaugurated.  The launch...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>September 19, 2012 GREAT BARRINGTON After more than 3 years of planning and organizing with the town governments of Great Barrington, MA and Fada N&rsquo;Gourma, Burkina Faso, BARKA&rsquo;s 1st sister-city proposal was inaugurated.  The launch date for this initiative was scheduled for this week to coincide with the International Day of Peace (September 21) because BARKA Foundation sees this kind of reciprocity as a concrete form of building what the UN calls a &laquo;&nbsp;culture of peace&nbsp;&raquo;.  BARKA is a UN-affiliated NGO. <a title="Berkshire Eagle Sister City Program Inauguration" href="http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_21587880/great-barrington-building-cultural-bridges" target="_blank">Read the full story in the Berkshire Eagle by reporter Ned Oliver here</a> (text below): Thursday September 20, 2012 GREAT BARRINGTON &#8212; When Ina and Esu Anahata first traveled in 2008 to the tiny West African country of Burkina Faso, they didn&rsquo;t have much to offer beyond a promise. The couple, founders of the BARKA Foundation, left the impoverished country, pledging to one day come back with enough money to drill a well and bring clean water to the city of Fada N&rsquo;Gourma. This year, the Anahatas made good on their promise, delivering not just a well but improved sanitation infrastructure &#8212; projects funded through years of fundraising in the Berkshires. Now, the BARKA Foundation is hoping the cross-cultural exchange of goodwill between the Berkshires and Fada N&rsquo;Gourma will continue. To that end, the town of Great Barrington inaugurated a sister-city relationship with Fada that the Anahatas hope will mutually benefit the two communities for years to come. &laquo;&nbsp;A sister city relationship is sometimes just a sign when you come into town,&nbsp;&raquo; Ana said. &laquo;&nbsp;But our goal is to really have Great Barrington take this on in their own hearts as a project of theirs, because we truly believe we have something to learn from them &#8230; the flow needs to go back and forth.&nbsp;&raquo; The exact form the sister-city relationship takes will be decided by a steering committee established by the Board of Selectmen last week. The board is hoping a diverse cross-section of local residents will sign on, and asks anyone interested to call the town manager&rsquo;s office. BARKA&rsquo;s fundraising efforts over the past years have touched all corners of Berkshire County, from Will iamstown to Pittsfield to Great Barrington. Monument Moun t ain High School Students, for example, went on a water walk, filling jugs of water in a river and carrying them back to class in an effort to show them how people in Fada live. In Burkina Faso, 80 percent of the population is subsistence farmers and one in five children die of preventable diseases by age 5. The Anahatas say the twinning of Great Barrington with Fada merely formalizes the relationship that started forming organically when they began fundraising in the county. &laquo;&nbsp;This really just concretizes the relationship,&nbsp;&raquo; Esu said. &laquo;&nbsp;We&rsquo;re very excited about the future of this relationship and where it could be lead, and we want to be very clear that it&rsquo;s not just about us helping them &#8212; it&rsquo;s really about developing this relationship of reciprocity to understand how we can help each other to walk toward a more sustainable future.&nbsp;&raquo;</p>
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		<title>BARKA Celebrates Peace Day 2012 with Sister City Kickoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the International Day of Peace 2012, BARKA&#8217;s proposal to create a sister city relationship between Great Barrington, MA and Fada N&#8217;Gourma, Burkina Faso was inaugurated. WAMC interviewed BARKA&#8217;s co-founders Ina &#38; Esu...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In honor of the International Day of Peace 2012, BARKA&rsquo;s proposal to create a sister city relationship between Great Barrington, MA and Fada N&rsquo;Gourma, Burkina Faso was inaugurated. WAMC interviewed BARKA&rsquo;s co-founders Ina &amp; Esu and Town Manager Kevin O&rsquo;Donnell at the twinning ceremony.  <a href="http://wamc.org/post/great-barrington-finds-new-sister-west-africa" target="_blank">Click here to listen (4 minute segment).</a> Report by WAMC&rsquo;s Lucas Willard: Great Barrington is now a sister-city with a community in West Africa. WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief Lucas Willard has more… Great Barrington has become twins with Fada N’Gourma, a city of similar size in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is a landlocked country about the size of Colorado in Western Africa. The twinning comes from the work of the BARKA Foundation, which formed  the Berkshires in 2006. The foundation first began working to help Tantiaka, a village near Fada, meet the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Those goals include establishing clean water, developing sustainable agriculture, self-governance, and women’s empowerment. Co-founder of BARKA Esu Anahata the work with Tantiaka began in 2008. Co-founder Ina Anahata says that she and her partner Esu hope that through the Sister-City program, and their work as a foundation, that they hope to raise awareness for the challenges facing the people of Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso has a population of around 15 million. The country is ranked 181 of 187 countries on the Human Development Index, and the highest illiteracy rate in the world. The Great Barrington Selectboard passed a resolution adopting the sister-city partnership with Fada earlier this year. Town Manager Kevin O’Donnell says that a committee will be established to develop the ways the two distant towns will work together. Esu Anahata says once relationship was approved by Great Barrington, he returned to the West African country. The launch date for the partnership was set for today to coincide with the International Day of Peace, which takes place this Friday, September 21st. BARKA also worked with Michael Johnson, of Monterey, the United Nations Representative for Pathways to Peace, and the Burkina Faso Embassy to the United States.</p>
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		<title>(English) Rotarians Support BARKA Foundation</title>
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		<title>Construction du puits : Chapitre II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; En direct du Burkina Faso : Samedi 28 avril Nous avons attendu toute la journée d’hier qu’OCADES finisse de réparer leur véhicule pour nous rendre à Tantiaka (La Petite), afin de commencer la construction...]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>En direct du Burkina Faso :</em></strong><br />
Samedi 28 avril</p>
<p>Nous avons attendu toute la journée d’hier qu’OCADES finisse de réparer leur véhicule pour nous rendre à Tantiaka (La Petite), afin de commencer la construction de la plateforme de béton autour du puits. La semaine passée, nous avions foré un puits de 26 mètres de profondeur. Mais, il nous reste de nombreuses choses à faire avant que le puits soit opérationnel.</p>
<p>Vers 15 heures, OCADES nous a informés qu’il allait falloir repousser au lendemain. Nous ne savions pas que le village nous avait préparé un repas, et avait tué un poulet pour l’occasion. Mais nous sommes ravis qu’ils aient dû profiter d’un tel  repas entre eux, puisque c’est un luxe qu’ils ne se permettent que très rarement.</p>
<p>Aujourd’hui, nous nous sommes rendus à Tantiaka pour la première fois avec  Paul et Pauline. Notre équipe continue de s’agrandir, et Paul et Pauline ont envie de travailler avec la fondation BARKA. C’est une véritable aubaine, car ils ont chacun, à leur façon, tellement à offrir. Paul, la cinquantaine, a une vraie conscience spirituelle, une expérience variée du monde des affaires et se décrit comme notre « Man in Havana ». Pauline a le Burkina Faso dans la peau, et elle a, comme nous, levé des fonds pour pouvoir prolonger son travail de bénévole dans ce pays qu’elle aime tant. Elle travaille avec une ONG locale et prévoit de collaborer avec BARKA concernant le travail de sensibilisation en cours. Ce travail porte sur l’eau et l’assainissement au sein de Tantiaka. Elle participera également à la prochaine étape du projet visant à aider les femmes du village.</p>
<p>Nous sommes arrivés au village et nous avons présenté Paul et Pauline à Bempoua. Nous avons parlé du travail spirituel fait avec son défunt mari et son fils décédé, un travail qui nous a tout particulièrement liés à ces lieux. Nous leur avons montré sa tombe, en leur racontant comment, en 2007, il avait attendu que nous ayons franchi le seuil de sa porte pour mourir.</p>
<p>Tant d’émotions et de souvenirs dans ces récits.</p>
<p>Les techniciens étaient déjà arrivés et étaient très satisfaits de l’avancement du puits. Grâce à un générateur, ils avaient pompé de l’eau (à notre arrivée, des femmes portaient des bassines d’eau sur la tête pour les ramener à leur maison : il s’agissait de l’eau du nouveau puits !). Ils nous ont informés de la productivité du puits : 2 000 à 3 000 litres d’eau par heure, soit largement au-dessus du minimum réglementaire fixé par le gouvernement de 700 litres par heure. Ils avaient également testé l’eau et l’avaient déclarée potable. Nous avons donc pu y gouter, nul besoin de vous préciser combien nous avons apprécié cette eau. Ina a offert du tabac, une tradition des indiens d’Amérique. OCADES a ramené un peu d’eau pour effectuer des tests plus poussés en laboratoire et nous a informés qu’il s’agissait d’un des meilleurs puits qu’ils aient vu.</p>
<p>Bempoua a demandé à s’entretenir avec nous. Nous l’avons informé du fait que BARKA souhaitait continuer et répondre à la demande des femmes concernant un moulin à grains, mais que cela impliquait de nombreuses démarches et prendrait du temps. Nous lui avons expliqué que les femmes devaient s’organiser pour réclamer une machine subventionnée par le gouvernement, une machine pouvant moudre le grain, irriguer et fournir de l’électricité.<br />
Nous avons souligné que BARKA continuerait de les appuyer et que les prochaines étapes consistaient à construire une plateforme autour du puits et installer des latrines communes. Une fois, ces travaux achevés, une inauguration sera organisée. Des équipes de la télévision nationale seront présentes, ainsi que de collègues de Ouagadougou, une troupe de danse traditionnelle et une troupe de théâtre, pour dispenser une éducation concernant l’hygiène à tout le village. </p>
<p>Bempoua fera elle-même la bière de millet locale pour l’événement. Nous servirons deux chèvres pour l’occasion. Nous nous sommes mis d’accord pour prier la veille pour que cette journée soit synonyme de succès, que ce projet soit prospère et le fruit de notre travail soit durable.<br />
Bempoua nous a dit qu’elle nous portait dans son cœur et nous bénissait, nous souhaitant longue vie et priant pour le succès du travail de la fondation BARKA. Elle a ajouté que, même si ses yeux étaient grands, ils ne lui permettaient pas de voir tout ce que nous lui apportions, à elle et à la vie du village, comme autant de choses qu’elle n’avait jamais compris auparavant. Sa langue, le gulimanchema, est toujours empreinte d’une telle poésie. J’aurais voulu que Paul et Pauline puissent partager cette si belle discussion privée avec Bempoua. Cet échange incarne la valeur de réciprocité que nous défendons, ce don profond à tous les niveaux, qui est si rare dans ce domaine du développement international, milieu qui manque cruellement de ces relations personnelles qui font avancer les choses…</p>
<p>Sur le chemin du retour, nous avons rendu visite à Lompo, le roi des 44 villages de la région. Son rôle dans la gestion des terres et de l’eau est important dans la tradition locale. Il était tellement content que nous lui ayons amené de nouveaux visiteurs qu’il nous a donné un lapin pour faire un ragout. Même s’il était seulement trois heures de l’après-midi, la journée touchait à sa fin. La température était encore bien au-dessus des 38° et nous étions lessivés. Encore une de ces merveilleuses journées au Burkina.</p>
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