Burkina Faso

The OLA Sisters have four communities in Burkina Faso. There is one community located in the Capital, Ougadougou. The three remaining communities are in Fada N’Gourma, Tibga and Diabo.

The Sisters offer services in Education (kindergarten, adult literacy) Health Care (Dispensaries, nutritional rehabilitation centre) and for the Empowerment of women (Formation of Women, Literacy, Income Generating Projects)> The Sisters are also involved in Pastoral work in the villages and in catechesis.

The Sisters in Burkina Faso have become very involved in recent years in two projects which are responding to the increasing social and health problems in their area. They run a Centre for Street Children in Fada N’Gourma. The ‘Bethany Centre’ for the treatment and care of those suffering from HIV and AIDS has also been opened there in recent years.

Fada N’Gourma is also the location for the Postulancy for young women from our Francophone Province. Currently (2009) there are twelve Postulants in Fada.