As part of the 21st edition of the National Culture Week (SNC) Bobo 2024, the association Déni Dêmê in partnership with UNICEF organized a food donation for the benefit of 45 internally displaced students (EDI). It was on May 3, 2024 at the sisters center in sector 25 of Bobo.
The 45 EDI (30 boys and 15 girls) who participated in SNC 2024 thanks to the association Déni Dêmê and its partner UNICEF received a bag of rice and other material donations. And for this reason they expressed their joy and gratitude to the donors. This is the case of Afsétou Koussoubé, EDI from the village of Kiri in Houet. She ensures that these arrangements will provide temporary relief to their host families and allow them to live comfortably with the remaining problems. In fact, this rice bag donation activity is part of the series of activities that the Déni Dêmê association has decided with the aim of bringing the 21st edition of the SNC to EDI. According to Fatimata Ouattara, project coordinator, these children were selected with the support of social action services and they come from different regions of the country, especially the North Center, the North, the Cascades and the Hauts-Bassins. “The Déni Dêmê society brought these EDIs together to spend moments of joy and happiness with them by benefiting them from the SNC. Most never participated in this event. Some have never heard of it. They lived and took care of us,” she said as she passed. During their stay in Bobo, which corresponds to the duration of the two years, the 45 EDI participated in a special exhibition of SNC Fitini in Bama and visited the sites of SNC, especially the community village and the fair trade and commerce. This EDI also participated in the place of SNC children installed at the Dafra Youth Center where, in the company of other children (nearly 2000 children were involved) they immersed themselves in a rich world of learning about Burkinabe culture. The Déni Dêmê association also gave children the opportunity to visit the old Dioulassobâ mosque, the Sogossira Sanon museum and many other attractions in the town of Bobo. To UNICEF and all other structures that helped the implementation of this project, Fatimata Ouattara made a special mention of them. While we look forward to the next edition of the SNC in March 2026.
Ousmane TRAORE
