Peace Day Sermon @ Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor, 9/22/19
In honor of the International Day of Peace, BARKA's Co-Founders Ina & Esu Anahata, and Kodjo Bance and Karim Combari, two members of the Burkina Faso Delegation visiting the USA since August, were invited to lead the service at the UU Church in Bangor. They also...
BARKA’s Annual Report and Strategic Plan
In anticipation of BARKA's Annual Retreat for the Board of Directors, we are releasing our Triennial Report for the past 3 years. This is now available for download here. However we are also looking forward and planning the details for BARKA's strategic direction for...
Burkina’s Mango Rain 2019
What is a Mango Rain? It's the first rain of the year, which usually comes in April. Why is it called a Mango Rain? Because at this time of year, as the temperature continues to rise, the mangoes are ripening on the mango trees, soon to be available to eat. When was...
Swampscott High School Walks for Water on Water Day
[See original post in North of Boston WICKED LOCAL] Students lug water through Swampscott High to benefit West African nation Posted Mar 25, 2019 at 4:28 PM Updated Mar 25, 2019 at 4:29 PM The Walk for Water was sponsored by the Swampscott and Marblehead High School...
Op Ed: Crises in Burkina Faso Demand Immediate Global Attention
By Esu Anahata Co-Founder, The BARKA Foundation In October of 2014, Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in the heart of West Africa, was the toast of democracies around the world. Its people rose up in a relatively peaceful popular revolution that succeeded in...
More Water on Tap for Burkina Faso
BARKA Project to Drill 24 Wells in Fada in Development As we've mentioned in prior blog posts, regrettably, terrorism is on the rise in Burkina Faso. The eastern region is the newest stronghold for these terrorist groups. Despite this new and dangerous threat, BARKA's...
2018: A Year of Impact
A Look Back at All We Achieved This Past Year: THE WATER FAIR Produced and hosted Burkina Faso's national World Water Day celebration: The Water Fair, a 5-day event beautifully chronicled in this film. In the process we met the First Lady of Burkina Faso, the US...
Year-End Letter from BARKA’s Co-Founders
Much is happening in Burkina Faso right now. It was a good harvest, despite a very shaky beginning - there was no rain in June and everyone was fearing another famine like the one caused by poor rains in 2017. But the rains did come, and not too much either. It's not...
Donor Letter
Anna Saldo Burke is a retired educator who worked closely with BARKA Foundation for years in the process of teaching her 3rd grade students about the Water Cycle. While working at the Sullivan Elementary School in North Adams, MA, Anna devised a unique and creative...
BARKA’s Work Towards the Achievement of the SDGs
With its activities in 2015, the BARKA Foundation has made numerous contributions to the improvement of living conditions of the people of the eastern region of Burkina Faso, which fall within the logic of the SDGs. This is particularly true for the WASH, health and...
Koosongo: Ceramic Filters for Burkina Faso
Koosongo (a Moré word for “good water”) is a social venture founded by The BARKA Foundation with cooperation from Poceram (a Burkinabè ceramics company) to combat the crisis of waterborne disease in Burkina Faso through the production, sale and...
Water Accounting – An innovative method to establish local water needs
For its work to bring safe water to the population of Burkina Faso’s Eastern region, The BARKA Foundation relies on the use of simple but effective methods to establish needs, monitor and document its own performance and ensure project...