2023-11-07 20:50:10
Burkina-Sourou-AGR
Sourou/AGR: 250 internally displaced women are active in market gardening in Tougan
Tougan, (AIB)- The High Commissioner of the Sourou province, Salif Traoré launched on Thursday October 19, 2023, the 2nd market gardening campaign project initiated by the Ibrahim Zina Foundation for the benefit of 250 internally displaced women in Tougan.
It is on an area of 2 ha developed with an 8m3/h borehole and wells near the “Kassanko” backwater, not far from the town, that the 250 internally displaced women in Tougan will devote themselves to market gardening.
According to the initiator of the project, Ibrahim Zina, his foundation’s approach aims to provide income to improve the living conditions of displaced women who lost everything upon arriving in the town of Tougan.
Mr. Zina specified that his structure also wants to make up for the lack of vegetables on the Tougan market subject to the blockade since January 2023.
“It is on my own land that women implement this activity. The first campaign, which began in February 2023, saw the participation of 150 internally displaced people in Tougan,” he maintained.
According to him, the group has grown with around a hundred members in this 2nd campaign.
“The women will work in groups of seven people on an area of 550m2 under the supervision of agricultural agents without constraint on the choice of vegetables,” declared the president of the foundation.
For the occasion, the testimonies of women on the fallout from the first campaign have edified more than one person. The spokesperson for the beneficiaries, Salimata Drabo, thanked the foundation and expressed the women’s commitment to taking the activity head on.
For the High Commissioner of the Sourou province, Salif Traoré, this initiative supports the government’s efforts and recommended that women fully invest in this production activity.
It also reflected the availability of administrative authorities and technical services to support them.
The president of the foundation underlined that the project benefited from numerous material and financial support from traders and transporters of Tougan and many other good wills.
The good news at this ceremony was above all the promise of the Amicale des Clubs PMUB de Ouahigouya to financially support the activity.
Note that the foundation also trained and equipped these women for poultry farming. The ceremony ended in style with blessings from traditional notables.
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