Bobo-Dioulasso, 27 August, 2020 / 7:31 pm (ACI Africa).
The leadership of Salesian Missions, the U.S.-based development arm of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), has facilitated access to safe drinking water to hundreds of youths in Burkina Faso and food relief to the deprived in three Southern African nations.
In a report shared with ACI Africa Thursday, August 27, the leadership of the New York-based agency has funded the construction of the “Sun Helps Us Succeed” water project, at the Don Bosco Center in Burkina Faso’s Archdiocese of Bobo-Dioulasso through the “Clean Water Initiative.”
“There had been a borehole dug and water tower ready, but the pump was required to complete the project. Photovoltaic installations are very appropriate in the area because it is sunny the whole year,” the leadership of Salesian Missions say in the August 27 report.
To sustain the water project, SDB Missionaries who have been working in the landlocked country since March 1993 are charging a “small fee” to people from outside the Center who get more than 50 liters of water daily from the project, officials of Salesian Missions say.
The money, they add, is expected to ensure “the maintenance of the water tower equipment.”
