A Nonprofit Organization
HOPE FOR DESPERATE HEARTS
BURKINA FASO
CLOTHING GIRLS IN VILLAGES
Since 2022, through a great friendship with a group of farmers in Pennsylvania, HFDH has been dressing up girls in the village of Dahorè in Burkina Faso during Christmas.
HOPE FOR WIDOWS
There are many widows in the villages of Burkina Faso that are in need of basics to get by, such as food, clothing, bedding, and medical attention. Hope For Desperate Hearts supplies 70 elderly widows with regular shipments of food and necessary household items to improve their daily lives.
In 2023, our farmer friends added blankets to their contributions of beautiful handmade items for the women and children we support. We are thankful for all of the wonderful friends who are supporting our work in Burkina Faso.
SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM
In 2021, Hope For Desperate Hearts launched a small-business training program that teaches stay-at-home women to weave fabrics that they can then sell to make a living.
HFDH provides graduates of the program with the necessary materials to continue what they learned and to set up shop at the market each week, beginning a new way of life.
DRIVER TRAINING
Since 2021, HFDH pays for training for nearly a dozen men per year to get their driver’s license. As part of the training, the men completed lessons in the classroom, passed a road test, and are able to then apply for jobs as drivers in the nearby city.
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TEACHER TRAINING
Completing the training to become a teacher can be life-changing, but the government can only support a very limited number of individuals each year. In 2022, HFDH paid for an orphaned young woman to complete a two-year government training to become a teacher. She graduated in 2023, and is now employed as an elementary school teacher in the region of Bobo-Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso.
SCHOOL ESSENTIALS
Attending school is so important, but not always easy without the right supplies. HFDH provides more than 100 children in the villages of Komsilga and Douna, in Burkina Faso, with backpacks for school. And since not every village has a school, some children have to travel far distances to get to class. Hope For Desperate Hearts launched a program to provide bicycles to kids who needed them.