1. Lyndsy Rae_-Summer 2009 Landlocked Former French Colony
College Student from Fort Wayne, Indiana Gained Independence 1960
Paid her own way to volunteer in an
Orphanage in Ouagadougou and to
practice her French … but what she saw
and experienced changed her life forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso
2. Changed her life and now she wants to do more to help those she met
Entrance to the Orphanage The newest arrival at the Orphanage
3. Provide a Power Point Presentation that Lyndsy can use
in Creating a Sustainable Orphanage Support Network
4. Project Goals: Demonstrate critical, expanded,
and reflective thinking pertaining to the 2009
Paradox of Affluence Honor Series Topics.
Personal Goals: To help a Friend and a
Humanitarian Mission that I believe in.
The Power Point Presentation Developed for
Lyndsy follows, beginning with the next slide!
5. Lyndsy Rae_-Summer 2009 Landlocked Former French Colony
College Student from Fort Wayne, Indiana Gained Independence 1960
Paid her own way to volunteer in an
Orphanage in Ouagadougou and to
practice her French … but what she saw
and experienced changed her life forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso
-T. Wilson
6. Helping take care of the thirty children The local Market: Burkina Faso ranks
There are five adult staff, Ratio 6:1 207th in Financial Poverty (2008 CIA Fact Book, PPP)
Third Poorest Country in Africa which has recently been devastated by flooding
8. Volunteering in a rented two room orphanage that has a
moderate sized outdoor covered porch (pictured above) and
very small barren dirt walled courtyard with thirty children.
All five orphanage staff are local native volunteers.
9. http://www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/weblog/archives/2009/09/ouagadougou_flo.html photo credit
1. Provide financial, material, and volunteer assistance to the
orphanage on both short-term and long-term care improvement targets
2. Provide assistance to the family that provided me with food and
shelter during my two month stay –their home has subsequently been
destroyed by flooding since I left Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -Africa
10. Buckets for carrying water the long distance from the communal
pump, some separate wash buckets to cut down on easily spread
open sore infections, portable child toilets, wash cloths, drink
cups, and rugs to keep the sleeping children off the concrete floor
Photos on this slide were taken fall 2009 by orphanage workers, e-mailed by Lourintine
11. The Children checking-out
the gifts bought by $600
raised by Fort Wayne
friends and End-time
Spasm Band Concerts
Just one small difference
in the children’s lives
Photos on this slide were taken fall 2009 by orphanage workers, e-mailed by Lourintine
12. My Host Parents with two younger
daughters and three older girls they have
adopted, now the whole family is homeless
13. The New Orphanage has already The Cute Guest-houses already
been built, titled, and provided built but need the same details as
But needs electrical, water, the other buildings! Wow the work
furniture, and other final details!! of past, but now absent donors…
15. Shelter
Five Areas Of Need:
Food Medical
Food - more nutrition
Shelter - cramped (sleep on floor), usually naked
Medical - nonexistent
Play - very cramped, limited recreation area
Education Play
Education - not existent!
16. A stool becomes one of the few toys Sleeping Children –to wash clothes,
for the little boys –concrete -n-tile water must be carried a distance…
Many needs are just very Basic – and this orphanage is at over capacity.
18. Recreation in the dirt The wonderful unpaid local
courtyard – children at play volunteers and staff
19.
20. Shelter
Food Medical
Education Play
The Needs are Multi-dimensional …
But so are the Partners this ministry seeks!
21. Shelter: Completion of Building Medical: Begin a program of
Program either by nationals or hygiene training, vaccinations,
foreign work teams traveling to prevention, and fundraising for
Burkina Faso, Africa needed child surgeries
22. Play: Even simple toys are needed Education: There is a great need
When the orphanage moves to the for sufficient and qualified
New Location there will be more teaching staff –no teachers
room to play – equipment needed regularly available (illiteracy)
23. Electrical Estimate for Agriculture and
New Building Landscaping for New
Water, Plumbing, and Facility
Fixture Estimate for Improving Temporary
New Building Orphanage Situation
Furniture Estimate for Initiative
New Building Education Programs:
Recreational Equipment Including Academic
for New Facility Teachers, along with
including Concrete Future Agricultural
Patios Areas Specialist
24. Contact Information:
Lyndsy Patterson
(260) 602-9196
pattlr01@students.ipfw.edu
End-time Spasm Band:
Partners in Fundraising,
ask Lyndsy about
Bookings or Promotions
All Photos and Video except where noted were taken by Lyndsy Patterson on her summer 2009 visit to Burkina Faso, Africa
