It has been a year since we launched the project ‘Cultivating Value: good practices and innovative methods for inclusive and sustainable agro-livestock production’ with funding from the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development (AICS) e la partecipazione di vari partners. During these months, we have pursued the results we set ourselves by trying to improve the managerial and technical capacities, production, processing and transformation of the products of the Bagré farm and livestock enterprise managed by the Burkinabé NGO SAPHE.

The project that saw us at the forefront of supporting the elderly of the Acomba community in the Huancavelica region of Peru has recently come to an end. In synergy with the Asociación Corazones & Manos Solidarias San Francisco, we decided last year to inaugurate the ‘Equipped Outpatient Clinic for Huancavelica – for the benefit of the underprivileged in the third age’, consisting of the purchase of medicines, supplements, nutritional supplements and hygiene items for the clinic.

It is now a year since we announced the start of the ‘Projet d’humanisation de la Maison d’Arret et de Correction de Ouagadougou (MACO)’, the largest prison in the capital of Burkina Faso. We decided to inaugurate the activity following a report from the Camillian fathers of the prison chaplaincy, who notified us of the urgent need to intervene to humane the treatment of inmates, confined in a precarious facility, where overcrowding is only the most obvious problem.

Not long ago we told you about theIstituto Privé de Santé Saint Camille de Lellis (IPSCA) in Ouagadougou, a nursing study centre that has established itself on the country’s health scene for the high specialisation it offers its students, who come not only from Burkina Faso, but also from as many as 12 other African nations. The last project we were involved in involved the installation of solar panels, an activity that we completed and which gave the Institute the opportunity to take advantage of numerous benefits both economically and in terms of sustainability.