WFP

Hey Everybody!

This past Sunday, the girls and I decided to participate in the annual Marche against world hunger organised by the WFP (World Food Programme) which organises it every year to collect money to help feed millions of children. We ended up being adopted by an organisation and we walked with them!

It wasn't a very long walk (mostly symbolic) and most of the people walking were children. There were also many speeches and they spoke about different statistics.... HALF of the population of Burkina Faso is under the poverty line (sous le seuil de pauvrete), 1/3 of the children of Burkina Faso are undernourished, only 50% of girls and about 65% of boys get to go to school and the total adult literacy rate is only 29%... hard to develop a country with those statistics....

Aren't you glad to be Canadian?

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