Please download the 2-page brochure About BARKA for history, personal background and strategies for achieving MDGs.

For a birdseye view of current status and developments as BARKA readies the launch of the BARKA Burkina Consortium on the International Day of Peace and works to realize a proposed concert event in Ouagadougou to raise funds for its clean water initiative, please download our most recent narrative summary. This document details developing relationships with UN agencies and Burkina Faso government Ministries.

BARKA'S GENESIS TRACED TO INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY

In 2004 The BARKA Foundation was formed in order to preserve, learn and disseminate indigenous spiritual healing traditions and to create the conditions for those wisdoms to be shared with the West.  Component parts of that mission include developing a relationship of reconciliation and reciprocity between indigenous and post-modern civilizations, and to bring the indigenous voice to a prominent seat at the table of world discourse on the crises facing our planet at this time.

SPIRITUAL PURSUITS LEAD TO HUMANITARIAN ONES

Through the course of repeated visits to Burkina Faso, BARKA's current area of geographic focus, and through fostering ties with several UN agencies, these spiritual endeavors led to a shift in focus and a dedication to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Burkina Faso so that its people could meet the basic needs for human survival. The degree of poverty especially for the rural part of the population is so extreme that it became impossible not to work to change it.  It is our mission to work in collaboration with others to effect positive change through the eradication of poverty within Burkina and to create a model for how such a task can be replicated worldwide.

BARKA is currently working intensively with students and youth both in the US and Burkina Faso to promote greater understanding of difference through educational and cultural exchange.

Burkina Faso is a small, arid, landlocked country of approximately 14 million which UNESCO cites as the 3rd poorest in the world.

This website is an invitation to you to join hands with us to accomplish this ambitious task and to show the world how it can be achieved and replicated.

BARKA's work, whether spiritual or humanitarian in nature, is ultimately about fostering healing and cultivating a culture of peace for our world.

BARKA NETWORKS

BARKA Networks is the media production arm of the organization.  It consists of:

• Yessai Baba Productions (TV, Film, work for hire)
• Medicine Music (music recording and independent label)
• Radio Production ("Jumping Off with Ina & Esu" airs weekly on WBCR-LP FM Great Barrington)
• Publishing
• Concerts, tours & events

Revenue from BARKA Networks is used to fuel the work of the foundation.

The BARKA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in Housatonic, Massachusetts and Burkina Faso, Africa.

BARKA is particularly interested in applying its work toward impacting policy change, corporate social responsibility and the re-configuration of humanitarian aid distribution in order to prioritize the protection and preservation of the planet's remaining indigenous cultures.

CO-FOUNDERS

BARKA was co-founded in 2004 by Ina & Esu Anahata (Esu is also known as Howard Ross Patlis) out of a passionate need to be of service at this time of global crisis. This work is their surrender to that call.

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