Innovation in Burkina Faso: Transforming WFP Food Sacks into School Bags
Published on 17 November 2011
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WFP Burkina Faso has found an innovative use for old WFP food sacks: turning them into school bags for children in the schools supported by WFP through the School Feeding Programme. In a few months, the 8,000 school bags, made by local artisans, will be completed and distributed to the students in the last two classes of primary school.
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"I have never received such a big order in my twenty-year working life. I am very happy with the trust WFP gave to me and my workmates,” said Bakary Ouattara, one of the local artisans. “And I am sure that the children of the Sahel will be very happy too.”
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