Education International member organisations in Burkina Faso help to promote literacy

EI member organisations in Burkina Faso held a double ceremony on the same day to celebrate teachers and help pupils. The ceremony was attended by hundreds of teachers and enhanced by the presence of the Minister of National Education, Literacy, and the Promotion of National Languages, who came to show his solidarity with the participants and receive the pedagogical gift from Education International.
 
World Teachers' Day, 5 October 2023, was celebrated in a very special way in Burkina Faso. The four member organisations of EI/Burkina Faso Section (SNESS, F-SYNTER, SNEA-B and SYNATEB) and the National Coordination of Education Unions (CNSE, of which the first four are members) chose to organise two major activities on the same day. These included a public conference on the theme of "Burkina Faso's education system confronted with terrorist attacks: the current situation and the roles of the various players" and the launch of supplementary readers produced by Burkina Faso's teachers themselves with the support of Education International's Pan African Teachers' Centre (PATC).
 
The first activity, a public conference, was led by Burkina Faso's Emergency Education Officer, who gave a presentation showing how insecurity, linked mainly to terrorist attacks, has inflicted a serious blow on Burkina Faso's education system, with such harmful consequences as school closures, the murder of teachers and students, internally displaced pupils and the destruction of school infrastructure.
 
In response to this crisis, the government, together with the country's technical and financial partners, has set up a mechanism to find appropriate solutions to curb the situation. But for the speaker, these responses cannot be operational without the involvement of all the players in the education system, including teachers through their trade unions.
 
The conference was followed by the launch of the supplementary readers produced by PATC, the professional development arm of Education International (EI) Africa, which were  presented them to the national education authorities for distribution to schools in disadvantaged areas. It should be noted that these booklets were written by Burkina Faso teachers during a book development workshop organised by EI member organisations under the patronage of PATC, with financial support from the Australian Education Union (AEU).
 
Culturally relevant stories with rich and varied themes that are meaningful to young learners, such as solidarity, mutual aid, the importance of education, the culture of effort, patriotism, ecology, gender, inclusion, hygiene, etc. These stories are rooted in the cultural heritage of Burkina Faso.  And it is the outcome of this initiative that Education International has made it a duty to offer to Burkina Faso's schoolchildren for use to promote reading.
 
The 8,000 booklets were handed over to MENAPLN by Mrs. Anaïs DAYAMBA, representative of EI Africa's Regional Director, Dr Dennis Sinyolo. The donation was preceded by a message from EI Africa's Regional Director, read by his representative. The message highlighted the history of World Teachers' Day and called on the authorities to continue to promote quality public education for all by recruiting and training teachers and improving their living and working conditions.

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