{"id":1834,"date":"2025-07-02T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfam.symbiotisk.net\/en\/?page_id=1834"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:04:23","slug":"burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfam.symbiotisk.net\/en\/about-us\/countries\/burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Our work in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our work in Burkina Faso<\/h1>\n\n\n

We focus our efforts on three key areas: Strengthening democracy and active citizenship, advancing climate adaptation, and providing humanitarian support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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80% of internally displaced<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

have gotten their basic needs covered by Oxfam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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800 young people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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340 women and young people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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12.000 students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Our work in Burkina Faso<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Burkina Faso means \u2018Our treasured, free and honest motherland’ but these lyrics are challenged as the 20 million inhabitants are facing turbulent times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increased insurgency and conflicts, weak governance and prolonged droughts have since 2015 dragged the country into a deepening economic, political, and environmental crisis and triggered two military coups. More than half of the population is under 18 years old, and the country is one of the poorest in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why we work to reduce poverty and inequality while fighting to promote women’s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.8 million Burkinabes are internally displaced, 2000 people have been killed, the military controls 60 percent of the country and 3300 schools are closed. That is why the country urgently needs support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women\u2019s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.<\/em><\/p>\nThomas Sankara
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Young people and women are the future of the nation. At Oxfam, we strive to ensure their active participation in advocating for the country’s development, both locally and nationally, and we support their efforts in fighting for a more equal and just society. This is the way to reduce the enormous inequality between rich and poor, while ordinary people will have access to health and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does Oxfam Denmark do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We battle the catastrophic consequences of climate change such as drought and flooding by ensuring the population’s access to housing, food, education and jobs, as well as training people in alternative techniques within sustainable agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also distribute emergency aid with a long-term development focus in areas suffering from conflict and climate refugees. As part of the emergency aid, we train local leaders and young men and women to be change-makers, to contribute to dialogue and peace building between warring parties and to rebuild the trust and cooperation with local authorities that is needed to ensure a stable development of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our goals in Burkina Faso<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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