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Burkina Faso Outreach (BFOAfrica.org) is a non-profit Christian organization founded by Lynn Peters (St. Louis, MO). The organization was created to share the gospel and care for orphans and widows through Education and a Child Sponsorship Program in a small land locked country called Burkina Faso, West Africa. "These people suffer in ways we can't imagine. Ninety percent of the population are subsistence farmers. In this dry sub-Saharan climate, they live day to day, hoping to have rain during the very short rainy season to grow a crop of millet. When the rains don't come, the children die from malnutrition. Families can't imagine having the means to treat their children for the deadly and all-too-common Malaria much less the many other diseases. A small 20% of the population is literate because they just don't have the means to pay the $3 annual primary school tuition. It's just a seemingly hopeless place." |
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