Since it was created in Salon-de-Provence in 2006, the association Espoir jeune burkinabé is completely devoted to the development of the rural commune of Tanghin-Dassouri, located 30 km southwest of Ouagadougou. Its president, who lives half of every year in the villages, strives each year to check the needs and expectations of the population.
In this community of 20 villages (population 66 000), the association is working in several areas: hygiene, health, education, improved living conditions. Among these various fields of action, school attendance has priority, because 40% of the children do not go to school. Their very poor families cannot always sacrifice part of their income to send their children to school, and for those who can, the distance (many children are forced to travel several kilometers on foot to go to school), the overcrowded classes (80 to 100 pupils) or precarious buildings don't make things any easier.
