BARKA’s strategy for achieving MDGs in Burkina has much to do with developing a relationship of reciprocity and mutual benefit between villages in Burkina Faso and communities in developed nations.

Through BARKA’s robust form of community engagement in North America, schools, youth groups, rotaries, women’s associations, faith-based organizations, artists, civic & political leaders are connected with their counterparts in Burkina Faso.

BARKA’s first sister-city proposal between Great Barrington, MA and Fada N’Gourma, Burkina Faso was approved by the Board of Selectmen in Great Barrington and awaits ratification in Burkina.

View details of early case-studies for grassroots partnerships on both a local AND international level.

BARKA’s work to join communities:

• Creates dialogue from which innovative solutions emerge
• Increases awareness, sensitivity and cultural competence
• Develops a sense of global citizenship and planetary responsibility
• Serves as a concrete model for creating a culture of peace

As the Hopi Elder Message (indigenous prophecy delivered at the UN) states, the modern and indigenous worlds need each other to survive as one global family.

The dual opportunity:

• Assist the indigenous rural population of Burkina Faso break the cycle of extreme poverty
• Share the precious resources and lessons within the indigenous paradigm to foster global sustainability with postmodern civilization