Picture of the week
November 2007
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Filling the granary
2007/Week 48
Men are stocking this year's harvest in their granaries. Every morning they will open the small door to take out a portion of millet or sorghum for their wife(s) to prepare the daily meals.
The groundnut harvest on the women's fields is still going on. As rains withdrew too early, they have to dig up the groundnuts one by one out of the bone dry soil. In normal years they can uproot the green plants with peanuts. It's just not fair…
Sun dried bricks
2007/Week 47
After the rainy season, small ponds remain in the lower parts of the landscape. The clayey soil is being used to make bricks. The fierce sun and the dry wind turn them into firm building material.
Leave on time not to arrive late
2007/Week 46
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Ben is Bibir's doctor : he is taking care of health sessions. On the principle that prevention is better than cure (in Mooré literally, it's better to leave on time than to arrive late), he talks about health with the people in the village. Four out of ten Burkinese children are moderately to severely malnourished. Babies aged six to nine months are sensible to malnutrition as they partially start eating solid food that is not nutritious enough. Two-year old toddlers are often undernourished as well: mum already gave birth to a new baby and there isn't enough milk for both children. |
How to feed your child appropriately? How to see that a child is undernourished? Women learn how to detect malnutrition in time so that their children can be 'recuperated' in hospital. Because often mothers arrive with children that are more dead than alive and hence hard to save.
Reaping the harvest
2007/Week 45
Rain clouds disappeared, cereals have ripened: it is harvest time.
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