Projects

Peace, Water & Wisdom Concert and Festival, September 18-21, 2010 (International Day of Peace), a 4-day event in Burkina's capitol city of Ouagadougou to raise funds for the BARKA Burkina Consortium's "Clean Water for All" Initiative. Click here to read about 2009's inaugural Festival.

Peace, Water & Wisdom Walk, grassroots mobilization through a 20-city walk to raise awareness of water scarcity in Burkina Faso and to raise funds for the drilling of a well in La Petite.

BARKA La Petite Building an indigenous part-time home in the small bush village, known to locals as La Petite Village, or simply, "La Petite".

BARKA Burkina Consortium 7-year project to achieve MDGs in Burkina Faso by UN target date of 2015 through collaboration, ingenuity and sheer chudspa.

BARKA Berkshire County The creation of a cultural, educational and spiritual bridge between the Berkshires of western Massachusetts and Fada, Burkina Faso. Women for Women: Consists of:

• "Women at the Well", a book of photographs and conversations with rural women from the African bush
• "Women's Work", a short film about the lifestyle and workstyle of indigenous women
• A micro-credit program in which western women are directly connected with indigenous women through small financial loans that enable economic and social empowerment by supporting women-owned sustainable micro-enterprises in Burkina Faso.

Wisdomkeeping: This is a constant through all of BARKA's projects- working with indigenous elders, recording their stories, documenting sacred wisdom, rituals, spiritual traditions and presenting them in such a way that others will be inspired to carry them forward for our children's children's children