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Stories of transformation and empowerment...

Executive Director
Joanna ILBOUDO, tells about the beginning of ACTS. Read about ACTS formation...
Then, read Joanna's vision for the poor...

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ACTS Ministry works with the most vulnerable of the poor. Widows and orphans in villages are hopeless without intervention. ACTS is dedicated to bringing education and basic skills to women and children to break the cycle of poverty.

Children at Risk

This comprehensive project provides education for development, sustenance, immediate medical care, and life skills training to AIDS orphans, other children at risk.

The statistics for children in Burkina Faso are tragic:

• 1 infant in 5 will die before their 5th birthday
  
  
• 37% of children up to the age of five are underweight for their age
  
  
• 65% of children do not attend school

Empowerment of Women

ACTS Ministry believes that sustainable development cannot be realized in countries like Burkina Faso when women who make up 52% of the population do not have access to basic necessities of life nor education.

Statistics from the Human Development Index show that only 16% of women over 15 years of age are literate. Of the entire population of 13.9 million, 13% have improved sanitation and 61% have access to an improved water source. Electric service reaches only 1.5 million of the population.

ACTS empowers women through literacy, income generation and micro-enterprise, immediate medical care, practical life skill training and education and promotion of human rights.

Click on the links below to view short descriptions of ACTS projects:


Children

• Children at Risk
  
• Feeding
  
• About Vitamin-Enriched Meals
  
• Sponsoring Children at School
  
• Vocational Training
  
• Athletic Program with Literacy and Creative Writing
  

Women

• Empowering Women
  
• Literacy
  
• Micro-enterprise
  
• A Woman's Day
• Women's rights

Publishing

• Books and Magazines
  
• Writer and Editor Workshops
  
• More Seminars
• Human rights for children
• Human rights for women
• Peace and Reconciliation

Agricultural program

• Agricultural projects
  
• Animal Husbandry Program for Orphans
• How You Help
• ACTS Plants 300 Banana Trees

Health and Human Services

• Medical Program
  
• Ellel Medical Center
  
• Sanitation and Water

Conferences and Seminars

• Evangelism
  
• Conferences and Women's Seminars
  
• Peace Project
  
• Publishing Seminars

Videos From ACTS Ministry

• Seeking a Way Out
• Ellel Medical Center Dedication
• Orphan and Widow Don't Cry

How You Can Help

• Pray
• Sponsor
• Buy Hand Made Crafts
• Feed Orphans
• Donate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACTS Center in Saonré is dedicated to giving a hand up and not a handout to the forgotten ones of Burkina Faso...widows and orphans.

"Seeking a Way Out" and other videos can be viewed. Click to see a list of films about ACTS and the people we serve....

We would be pleased to hear comments or receive questions from you. Click for contact information... Merci

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