Rimkieta, a neighborhood with hope

Did you know there is a place where...?

• There is nothing. People live in houses made of adboe and can only eat millet or corn...
• Due to the lack of nutrition, children's minds cannot develop adequately. They suffer from malnutrition, typhoid fever, malaria, diarrhoea...
• Schooling and healthcare are privileges only available to a small minority...
• Life expectancy does not exceed 60 years…
• Women do not have the same rights as men and struggle daily to keep their families going, with their children tied to their back and with only elementary tools to till the dry soil in the hope of growing some vegetables or grain that will allow them to survive...
• There is no water infrastructure, no access to electricity due to its high cost and there is no sewage system...
• Periodic flooding makes Rimkieta's unpaved streets practically impassable.
• People have no motivation because their principal concern is simply to survive from day-to-day...

THIS PLACE EXISTS...

…it is called Rimkieta and is one of the poorest suburbs of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.   Burkina Faso, which in its native language means "the land of upright men", is one of the most disadvantaged countries in the world..   It's a country in Eastern África bordering Malí in the north-west, Níger in the north-east and Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benín in the south.   It was ranked 183 out of the 189 countries in the Human Development Index published by the United Nations in 2017. This is some of the significant data on development in Burkina Faso:

Per capita income is estimated at $1.650. Infant mortality rate for children younger than 5 years old is 8% Child schooling rate for children between 3 and 5 years old: 3% Adult literacy rate is possibly 29% Life expectancy at birth: 60 years An old French colony, Burkina Faso became independent in 1960. Roch Marc Christian Kaobre President since december 2015. Before him, Blaise Compaore was the President from 1987 to 2014.   The official language is French, although only a minority of the population speaks it.   Religion: 50% Muslim, 30% traditional African religions and 20% Catholic.

Rimkieta's location in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso