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Burkina Faso
Country Director: Emilienne Sanon
Programme start: 1990
Population: 14m
% living on less than US$1 a day: 27%
Adult life expectancy at birth: 51 years
In Burkina Faso we work with disabled people's organisations building their capacity to campaign for changes in attitudes and policies that currently discriminate against disabled people. We support regional networks of disabled people’s organisations to set up committees which explore the reasons behind their exclusion, identify the key issues and develop advocacy campaigns to tackle these issues. Currently these committees are focusing on the right of disabled children to education, and they have been instrumental in the creation of a new Department of Inclusive Education to develop ways of getting more disabled children into local schools.
ADD works with disabled people’s organistions in Burkina Faso to establish youth wings within existing groups, ensuring that the needs of disabled children and young people are not lost.
In order to help disabled people in Burkina Faso raise awareness of disability issues in their community ADD helped with training in 'Theatre for Development'. Several drama groups have now been set up and are making regular performances in their communities, bringing the issues previously not talked about, out into the open for discussion.
The Aladari theatre group performed dramas to raise awareness about disabled people's right to vote. This was just part of the awareness raising work carried out by the Disabled People's Committee for Democratic Observence (COPHOD) during elections in November 2005.
Musical group Sebe Allah Ye, members of a disabled people's organisation performing a song about disabled people's right to vote
Aladari's théatral group performing a drama to raise awareness of disabled people's right to vote