The Consortium of the Alliance for the Protection and Education of Children and Youth-Association for the Promotion of Employment and Local Development (APEEJ-APEDEL) presented on Friday April 14, 2023 Ouahigouya, installation kits in soap production technique to fifty internally displaced women and host populations.
Coming from five villages that are Somiaga, Lilligomdé, Watinooma, Bogoya and the city of Ouahigouya, fifty internally displaced women received installation kits in soap production techniques after an 8-day training.
The objective of the training is to strengthen social cohesion and stabilize population flows through the prevention and management of conflicts in the commune of Ouahigouya.
The training was organized by the consortium of the Alliance for the protection and education of children and young people-Association for the promotion of employment and local development (APEEJ-APEDEL).
For the Coordinator of the APEEJ-APEDEL consortium, Pascal Parkouda, the security crisis has a negative impact on the lives of internally displaced women and host communities.
“The transitional authorities are stepping up actions to provide appropriate responses. It is in this sense that the consortium decided to build the capacities of these IDP women and the host populations in soap production techniques,” she said.
For Mr. Parkouda, the knowledge they acquired during the training can help them in their professional life if they put it into practice.
"With the kits they received this morning, I am convinced that they will not be unemployed", added the Coordinator of the APEEJ-APEDEL consortium.
According to the spokesperson for the beneficiaries, Zoenabou Zango, “We thank very much the initiators of this training. We are internally displaced but with the training we received during the 8 days and in addition the kits we just received this morning, I can reassure you that our suffering will be lessened”.
She invited all female beneficiaries (IDPs or hosts) to make good use of the knowledge and the installation kits obtained because, “even when they return home, it will be useful to us. May peace return to Burkina Faso”.
Pascal Parkouda, gave good advice to the beneficiaries and invited everyone to pray for peace to return to our country Burkina Faso.
Source: Burkina Information Agency