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THE FOUNDER:
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AMPO Facilities

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AMPO Orphanages

MIA-ALMA
Refuge for abandoned girls

AMPO - Social Services

TONDTENGA  
Agricultural college and organic farm

MAM DUNIA
Training kitchen and restaurant

PANG LA WENDE  
Wheelchair project

HANDICAP MOBILE  
Mobile wheelchair project

AMPO Clinic

AMPO  
Training facilities

KAM NOGLOOM -
Association of former AMPO children

Who we are

The purpose of our Association is to support the facilities of AMPO, Association Managré Nooma pour la protection des orphelins (Association for the protection of orphans) in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. We assist children who are orphans or half-orphans, offering them protection, food, accommodation, schooling and psychological support. Another AMPO facility is there to assist young women who have been driven out of their villages, providing them with a fresh start and enabling them to lead independent lives. Our mission is therefore to promote education, integration, courage and strength towards a life of self-determination. . ...Mission statement

News from the world of AMPO

Night of the NGOs in Ouaga – congratulations!

The night of the NGOs (non-governmental organisations) took place once more in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This is an event organised by the renowned KEREN COMMUNICATION agency.

60 organisations, including AMPO of course, presented at the event last weekend.

And we were thrilled to hear the news from Director General Dénis Yameogo on Saturday evening that AMPO had won the first prize in the humanitarian aid sector.

Thank you for a great job!

Awards of this kind create confidence for all our donors.

Edmond Tapsoba Foundation visits AMPO in Ouagadougou

Edmond Tapsoba - Burkinabé, soccer player with German national league team and German champion Bayer Leverkusen since 2020 – set up his own foundation in February 2024.

The staff at the foundation based in Ouagadougou was invited to our farewell ceremony in July. We took the opportunity to set another date for them to visit the  various AMPO facilities. They came to see us on 31st July 2024. The photos show the interesting exchange between us and our guests.

We are very pleased that this contact came about because the foundation pursues exactly the same goals as we do: access to education, food security, health care, etc..

And we discovered that there is little to stop us working closer together.

That would be absolutely great!

A fateful day in the Clinic

Once more our Clinic was called on to intervene in a very special case:

Nikiema F. is 28 years old and lives in Karpala. He came to us on account of extensive ulceration of the right foot, which had developed about a month ago following an injury caused by the pedal on his moped. He was referred to the Yalgado OUEDRAOGO Hospital for treatment of a deep wound.

AMPO summer holidays

The children at the orphanages set off to visit their remaining families, an important event to maintain contact to their roots.

It is a long-standing tradition for Katrin to hand out sweets to the children - let the holidays begin!

Farewell ceremony at AMPO

Farewell ceremony – Many of the young people leave the orphanages and the women’s shelter each year to make room for new children and other young women.

This event is a cause for celebration every year. The young people leave the orphanages at the age of 18 but AMPO continues to support them.

Welcome Mrs DENNE Honorine

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Honorine DENNE who has just joined our staff at AMPO in Ouagadougou to work on fundraising.

She comes to us with experience of project coordination, she has managed communication departments and has been the leader of several NGOs.

Mme DENNE has also worked on financing various  projects, including EU projects.

Before she took up her post officially on 2nd May 2024 she visited all of the AMPO facilities to gain an overview.

We are looking forward to working closely with Mme DENNE and wish her all the very best.

Lions fund laboratory equipment

The ceremonial handover of laboratory equipment took place on 23 March 2024. Once it is up and running, the AMPO infirmary will be able to carry out important medical tests immediately.

This laboratory equipment was financed by the Lions Club Hamburg-Altona and the North Sea Lions (Lions Clubs of the countries bordering the North Sea). The LC Ouagadougou Karite took part in the handover on their behalf.

This equipment will help many people in need. AMPO can now react much faster to certain diseases and can try to help even better.

Our thanks go to the Lions Club Hamburg-Altona and the North Sea Lions!

Where can you buy the beautiful patchwork products?

Flyer number 2

There are two possibilities!
They are made in our MIA/ALMA project. Young women who have been rejected and/or abused receive training in this project, e.g. as seamstresses.
You can buy them there and/or directly from AMPO, where you will also find the Mam Dunia restaurant.
If you are not in Ouaga, there is a second option, namely to buy them from our office in Berlin.
No matter where you are, come and visit us!

Archive

Recent activities

We had a lot going on last week.

On 19.09. we had an opportunity once more to report on our trip to Burkina Faso in Berlin and invited the residents at Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Berolina eG to join us on our journey, sharing all our emotions and impressions.

We were supported by Renate and her husband from the  Alsamar e.V., association who drummed in the evening and prepared a wonderful African finger food buffet.

Back in Hamburg at the church fair on 21.09. we met with great success selling our products. The sun was shining, temperatures rising and our members were there to answer any questions about our products.

Katrin Rohde gave a presentation in Würzburg as part of her lecture tour to schools in the Roth District.

Further details will follow later.

If you would like us to arrange a talk, or if you would like to organise a stall to offer our products, please let us know.

We’re ready to help!

With heart and hand

One of our members, Christine Labudda, spares no effort in her ongoing support for AMPO. Her latest foray was at the open-air theatre festival in Merxhausen.

During the interval at the production of “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter“ she raised more than 2.900 euros selling chocolate. She regularly asks the manufacturer to donate “second quality“ chocolate which is not sold in normal supermarkets.

She spends a great deal of time wrapping the chocolate and uses her charm to sell it to the theatre-goers.

If you would like to follow her example by doing something similar, Let us know and we will send you supporting information.

1st starting signal: Hand in hand against skills shortage

With 2 strong partners at our side, we were able to hold the first intensive and concrete discussions. Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Berolina, represented by Mr Frank Schrecker (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), agreed to provide accommodation for trainees in the future. And AHK Pflegeteam GmbH, represented by Managing Director Andreas Kröger, is of course also urgently looking for trainees and is ready to help with all the bureaucratic challenges.

We are delighted that we have been able to open the first doors with this concept and are pleased about these constructive discussions!

Are you familiar with the "Spare Cents Initiative"?

Employees of a company voluntarily donate the cent amounts after the decimal point from their net salary each month. In our case, the law firm BRL BOEGE ROHDE LUEBBEHUESEN in Hamburg even tripled the sums received.

A very simple way of helping that doesn't hurt.

Donation from Weltladen Kuppenheim

A wonderful initiative by the Weltladen St. Sebastian and our member Helmut Timper.

This campaign also draws attention to the event on 13 April 2024 in Kuppenheim. Katrin Rohde will be a guest there and talk about her life and the project. ...Press release

Focus on: Burkina Faso

We say thank you!

Dr Bernhard Geiselmann invited us to report on AMPO as part of his own exhibition "In Focus: Burkina Faso". He has been processing his impressions of Burkina Faso in pictures for many years.

The location was provided by Café Möca in the Möckern neighbourhood in Berlin.

After a short introduction, we reported on our own impressions that we were able to gather exactly one year ago.

It was a nice combination and we were pleased to welcome interested visitors.

If you are interested in Dr Geiselmann's pictures or a presentation, please contact our office.

Sommerfest in der Berliner Geschäftsstelle

Glück auf der ganzen Linie … Nach etlichen Regentagen, hatten wir am 07.07. wunderschönes Wetter. So konnten wir für unser Fest auch draußen mit einplanen, und endlich kam mal unser wunderbares Tresenfenster zur Geltung.

Presentations: Travel Diary 2023

At the beginning of March, Ute Krüger and Britta Sacadati were able to report on their trip to Burkina Faso and the visit to the AMPO facilities.