Burkinabè diaspora donates 3,000 school bags
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sidwaya
The Council of Burkinabè Economic Operators in Ivory Coast has donated 3,000 school bags for orphans of personnel from the Combatant Forces who fell at the front. The donation aims to ease the schooling costs of the families concerned, according to the minister secretary-general of the presidency, Zakaria Soré.
The Council of Burkinabè Economic Operators in Ivory Coast (COEBCI) donated 3,000 school bags for orphans of personnel from the Combatant Forces killed at the front. The donation was received on Friday 13 November by Professor Zakaria Soré, minister secretary-general of the Presidency of Faso and national coordinator of the Presidential Initiative for Quality Education for All (IPEQ), according to the Communications Directorate of the Presidency of Faso.
The donor is Balélé Eugène Bado, a member of COEBCI, who intends to support the efforts of the Burkinabè government to strengthen the education system, according to COEBCI secretary-general Bernard Bonané. Zakaria Soré described the gesture by the Burkinabè diaspora in Ivory Coast as support for the families of members of the Defence and Security Forces and Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland killed in the fight against armed groups, according to the Presidency of Faso.
