Ujima / Collective Work and Responsibility : Turns Desert Into Water: How Burkina Faso Created an Ocean Out of Nothing

Ujima / Collective Work and Responsibility : Turns Desert Into Water: How Burkina Faso Created an Ocean Out of Nothing<


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what made Ibrahim special was that he studied geology at the University of Wagadugu on a government scholarship. In his 10 years as a geologist, he traveled to all 48 provinces of Burkina Faso, understanding every inch of the land, until Ibrahim Trare appeared and changed the story entirely. Ibrahim Trare was not a typical politician or a product of 4:30 Western education. At 35, he came from a poor farming family in the rural region of Mahoon, a 4:38 place where many children had to drop out of school to herd cattle. His father was a barley farmer and his mother was a small trader selling vegetables at the local market. They were a family of eight siblings living in a mudbrick house with a thatched roof.<


But what made Ibrahim special was that he studied geology at the University of Wagadugu on a government scholarship. In his 10 years as a geologist, he traveled to all 48 provinces of Burkina Faso, understanding every inch of the land, every dry riverbed, every aquifer. He knew exactly where reservoirs could be dug, where wells could be drilled, and where trees could be planted to combat desertification. More and where trees could be planted to combat desertification.


More importantly, during his field trips, he 5:23 witnessed the miserable lives of his people firsthand. He saw mothers holding their crying children as their rice crops withered and died. He saw old men sitting sadly, looking at fields that were once green lack of will to harness them. Phase one was to mobilize the entire nation to dig 50,000 rainwater reservoirs within 6 months from March to August 2024. Each reservoir would have an average capacity of 5,000 cub m, the size of an Olympic swimming pool. The total capacity would be 250 million cubic meters of water.<


Phase 2 was to connect these reservoirs into an interconnected irrigation system through small canals, creating a network to irrigate 2 million 6:44 hectares of farmland, 10 times the existing irrigated area. Simultaneously, they would develop freshwater fish 6:52 farming in the reservoirs to increase capacity would be 250 million cubic meters of water. <


Phase 2 was to connect these reservoirs into an interconnected irrigation system through small canals, creating a network to irrigate 2 million hectares of farmland, 10 times the 6:47 existing irrigated area. Simultaneously, they would develop freshwater fish farming in the reservoirs to increase farmers income. <


Phase three was to 6:56 develop an ecoourism industry around the newly created green oasis, building 7:01 environmentally friendly resorts and 7:03 creating jobs for 5 million rural inhabitants. The goal was to turn Burkina Faso into a unique African tourist destination where 7:12 visitors could experience rural life and fish in crystal clearar lakes in the middle of the desert. And the most crucial point that Trrower emphasized 7:25 the people of Burkina Faso with the 7:28 resources of Burkina Faso based on the wisdom of Burkina Faso. Not one dollar 7:34 in aid, not one loan, not one foreign expert, no dependence on anyone. And then on the morning of March 15th, 2024, the miracle began as the sound of drums signaling the launch of Operation Green Sahel echoed from thousands of villages