Blackboard Resilience

A young girl does her homework on a makeshift blackboard built in her home while doing housework. In recent years, Burkina Faso, one of Africa’s poorest and the safest countries, has been the target of more than 300 terrorist attacks. Education has become the center of the attacks that has closed more than 1,000 schools, has left 150,000 children without classes only in the last year and has made abandon their work and seek refuge more than 60% of the teachers. The terrorist threat, spreading rapidly to other countries in the region, is clear. Children are afraid. They don’t go to school anymore. They fear an attack that kill them, and they have started studying at home. Improvised chalkboards, regiments of children learning from each other, the older ones teaching the younger ones… great whirlpool of creative and culturally resilience.