From Bradwell to Burkina Faso 

I have finally gotten round to starting a blog with only one day to go until my up coming adventure to Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is a small land locked country hardly anyone has heard of in West Africa. Over the next 3 months I will be living and volunteering in Ouagadougou possibly the best named capital city in the world. 

During my 3 month stay I will be working with a group of people called 'Tigoung Nonma' or 'Strength through unity' who are a group of disabled artisans founded in 2005. The aim of this group is to improve the economic situation of the members. Im not exactly sure of what I and the other volunteers in my group will be doing yet as we have only been given a basic brief on what we will be doing but il be updating this blog once a week to keep all those who are interested updated. 

So why volunteer? Why go to Africa?

These are the questions I have been asked quite often over the past few weeks and I suppose the answer is best explained through one of my favorite quotes: 

'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by 

the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade 

winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover' (Mark Twain)

So needless to say this is one of the things im using to justify my reasoning behind taking a break from my normal day to day life in a small village in the peak district where traffic jams are only caused by tractors, to go and spend what im hoping will be 3 amazing, crazy, forfilling and different months in Africa. 

Nerves/excitement are setting in now and I still have packing to do so disorganized but packing for 3 months is hard. I have enough teabags and coffee packed for the 3 months so everything else seems of less importance really. 

Anyway that's enough waffling for now. Updates will be coming soon!!

Lucy