This week of consultations should serve as an opening to the expectations of the putschists to receive the most creative proposals around the 5 following aspects:
In parallel to this week of consultations, the CNRD went to all Guinean localities (town halls and prefectures) to restore order in the country, campaigning for the sanitation of villages and towns and preparing for the start of school.
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Overview about the most important events:
Mr. Tanou Grovogui, graduate in Biology from the University of Kankan, class of 2020, independent researcher and passionate about immunology, has just been assigned to Fodecariah to teach Biology and Geology at the secondary school.
He offers revisions for the preparation of the BEPC in the following subjects: Biology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
This is an incredible opportunity for our young learners, who can now discover research methods by learning to observe with precision and to sketch the first analyses. This is the basis of all empirical studies, necessary to the scientific advances
He will soon tackle the delicate subject of reproduction, the menstrual cycle of the woman and contraception. He will show the use of condoms and the pill in order to sensitize the youth and do everything to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
He will have the microscope repaired, which we brought in 2020, and which needs to be adjusted, in order to discover the microscopic world.
The construction of a drinking water well allowing
If this measure succeeds, this building would be a prototype of construction, allowing the children to have free and easy access to drinking water, thus a considerable improvement for their health, and could be used as a model of construction for all the school infrastructures of the region
Oumar, who officially represents our NGO in the field, has listed this winter the needs of the region of the sub-prefecture of Fodécariah Balimana.
During our general assembly in May, we decided to support the elementary school project in Dalaba first.
Our reasons are as follows:
Why this village?
This village, located 12 km from Fodecariah, is composed of 7200 inhabitants with currently 327 primary school students. This village has only 3 classrooms, built in 1995, during a project with Canada.
It is necessary to renovate these 3 classrooms and to complete with a new building of 3 classrooms to ensure the 6 primary classes.
In order to officially obtain the assignment of 6 teachers around the director by the Ministry of Regional Education (DPE) of Kankan, we need to provide a drinking water well and have latrines built for boys and girls in addition to the 6 classrooms.
So if we succeed in obtaining the necessary funds, we will be able to set up an elementary school in Dalaba for the start of the school year in October 2022.
From 16:10 to 18:00 in the conference room of the library of Fodecariah, a scientific debate took place between two groups of students around the theme: "Is the marriage of yesterday equal to that of today".
Each group was composed of 6 people with equal parity between girls and boys. A jury composed of teachers and students was created to decide between the two groups according to their proposed arguments. In the end, this debate became a joy for both the students and the village itself, which attracted up to 200 people!
The first group proposed arguments demonstrating the transformation of marriage
The second group defended the thesis of the immutable tradition of marriage.
Each group tried to dominate their opponents with solid, justified and acceptable arguments based on new ideas. Finally, the "no" group dominated with their arguments, justifying that yesterday's marriage and today's marriage are not the same, neither in time nor in space. They won the cup with their heads held high and many congratulations.
Use of this new pedagogical method:
She visited several health posts and found that they are not functional at all and are in a very bad state. Broken equipment, not replaced because no one knows how to use it, unhealthy buildings and medical waste littering the ground.
The inhabitants, especially the children, have chronic bronchitis, due to the air pollution. As there are no garbage cans or incinerators, plastics are regularly burned several times a week in the city centers, releasing toxic gases permanently.
The sub-prefecture of Fodecariah has long wanted a new health post. But before building a new post, it would be URGENT to introduce behavioral changes:
This diaspora is a group of about 250 people from Fodecariah and the surrounding area, scattered all over the world, mainly between the United States, Asia, France, Belgium, Morocco and West Africa.
All their discussions take place in Malinké, and they concentrate all their energy, ideas and donations to advance the development of their country. It is good to see how active and fast they act. They are overthrowing the old, very paternalistic and conservative structures to bring modernity to Guinea.
Numerous studies show that migrants who are well integrated in the host country contribute greatly to the development of their country of origin. Integration and attachment to the country of origin are not mutually exclusive. The economic and socio-cultural potential that the diaspora can offer plays an essential role in the development of the countries of origin. Migrants transfer money to their relatives and acquaintances and invest in the development of their countries of origin through small businesses. But they also contribute to the development of their country of origin in the destination country through the transfer of skills, knowledge and experience.
We all hope that together with Mamoudou and the new sub-prefecture, they will bring a new wind to motivate young people to take school more seriously, to quickly learn about new technologies and to find and implement new small business ideas!
Why Oumar?
D abord parce qu il fait partie de cette culture et qu il maitrise de plus en plus la langue Malinké.
On the one hand, because he is part of this culture and increasingly speaks the Malinké language.
On the other hand, because he has spent 10 years here in Europe between France and Germany, and has thus learned the way our societies work and their requirements.
In addition, he has already worked for 2 years as a volunteer for our ONG in Fodecariah:
After 2 years as a reliable volunteer, with his commitment to the promotion of the youth of his country, as well as his very good language skills in German and French, we could not wish for a better coordinator on site. He will help us to maintain the existing infrastructure and to expand our radius of action in order to create more perspectives for the whole Balimana region.
Currently, with the help of the youth NGO of Fodecariah, he is leading our last project for 2019-20: The Youth House. He is also visiting all the surrounding villages to learn about their most urgent needs.
The primates have learned how to disarm the traps set by poachers without hurting themselves. To do this, they have studied snares and understood exactly which parts of them are dangerous so that they can avoid them and destroy the trigger mechanism. The monkeys even actively seek out the traps to crack them. They also use small stone hammers and an anvil to crack the nuts. It almost looks like a Stone Age man.
To illustrate this extraordinary intelligence, watch one of the chimpanzees trying to start a motorbike. (2 min video recorded by our driver)
Unfortunately, the animals are very endangered. There are only three males and four females left. The reason: agricultural burning has fragmented their habitat. As a result, they are cut off from other groups and cannot mate. The good news is that last week one of the females was seen with a baby. It is a female, which is especially important in order to give birth to more offspring.
To ensure the survival of the group, a "migration corridor" must now be built, a kind of safe "migration route" so that the animals can visit other chimpanzee groups and reproduce.
The famous Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara had to learn to sing like a "griot" in Malinké.
You should know that not only are statues locked in our country, but that the Congolese artist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza is regularly imprisoned for trying to return some of our museum's fetish statues to where they were stolen in Africa!
The colonial legacy is still too present, there are still many things that need to be put back in their place, right down to the African spirituality that has been replaced by Christianity and Islam, two colonial and missionary monotheistic religions that have stolen the African soul!
Listen to these African professors:
a topic for debate, so that young people understand that not only fetish statues have been stolen from their cultural heritage!
https://youtu.be/VYC_eGM2bGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rKKGsnie9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75i_wMzijA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa46yvslA9w