On Thursday, March 2, the official handover ceremony of the keys to three classrooms donated by the Bank Of Africa Foundation took place in Darsalamy. Ceremony marked by the presence of administrative and customary authorities.
This official handing over of the keys to three equipped classrooms plus an office at the Darsalamy B primary school by the Bank Of Africa Foundation, comes at the right time, because it now makes normal this school which was made up of three classes, for a standard of six. Through this gesture, therefore, the Bank Of Africa Foundation reaffirms its proximity and its commitment alongside the populations for their educational but also health well-being according to Paule Sanou / Ouédraogo, National Coordinator of the Bank Of Africa Foundation, representative of the President of the Bank Of Africa Foundation, Lassiné Diawara. Worth about forty million CFA francs, these three classrooms which now make it possible to standardize Darsalamy’s B school, will also make it possible to accentuate good training for the benefit of students in the quest for excellent according to Seydou Traoré, Head of the basic educational district of Bobo 6.
Administrative authorities, customary authorities and students satisfied
Batiemoko Barro, village chief of Darsalamy; Salamata Sinaré, President of the Special Delegation of District 6 of the municipality of Bobo-Dioulasso and Nabiba Barro, student representative, each, in turn, expressed feelings of satisfaction but also of gratitude towards the Bank Of Africa Foundation for its salutary gesture. “Whoever thinks of the education and well-being of children dreams of a better tomorrow. Through its gesture, the Bank Of Africa Foundation shows us that it cares about the well-being of our children, and therefore about our future. We can only say thank you to him,” suggested Batiemoko Barro, chief of the village of Darsalamy. Salamata Sinaré, after having expressed his feelings of thanks, invited the teaching staff as well as the parents’ association, to work in the maintenance of the infrastructure to benefit from it as long as possible.
“We listen to our community”
For the National Coordinator of the Bank Of Africa Foundation, in addition to its commercial component, society has a social component. And this imperatively involves listening to the expectations of the community by providing a solution. Something that prevailed in the construction of these three classrooms equipped with an average of 60 students per class in addition to the donation of teaching materials. “We have been approached by the authorities and the population of Darsalamy for educational infrastructure needs and the need is real. The state alone cannot respond to all requests. We have therefore decided to respond favorably to the request of the population, and this is effective today with the handing over of the keys”, confides to us Boureima Zerbo, communication officer of the Bank Of Africa Foundation.
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