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“Burkina Day” @ Williams College
0 comments Sep 22, 2011September 22, 2011: Community Corner with Ina & Esu of The BARKA Foundation PITTSFIELD, MA (WAMC) – Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, is one of the poorest nations in the world. For the past five years, the BARKA Foundation, a Berkshire County-based NGO, has been working to bring students and residents in [...]
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World Water Day- Reflections on the Day After
0 comments Mar 23, 2011I woke up on World Water Day, made a cup of coffee (I would learn later in the day from Huffington Post that it takes 37 gallons of water to make a cup of coffee) and immediately got to work on a newsletter for BARKA Foundation’s 2000 water activist subscribers… In the email blast we [...]
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Walking for Water for Burkina Faso
Comments Off Feb 14, 2011BARKA’s Walks for Water bring the rain! Don’t believe us? Watch the video… The BARKA Foundation held its 1st Peace, Water & Wisdom Walk in 2009– a 500-mile journey through 20-cities-in-20-days to raise awareness and funds for clean water for the people of Burkina Faso, West Africa. On Peace Day BARKA held a walk for [...]
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A Day in the Life of a BARKA Co-Founder
0 comments Feb 8, 2011February 7th, 2011 I got to work this morning at 9:30am after briefly chiseling the ice out of a large hole we keep open in the frozen lake in front of our cabin where we fill our water buckets and wash our faces while we say our morning prayers (not knowing it was going to [...]
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