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Easy Laser considers it a moral obligation to return to society a part of what it has obtained from it and thereby to help those in the greatest need. For this reason, it collaborates actively with the Fundación Amigos de Rimkieta (FAR).
Our main concern is twofold: on one hand there is the glaring poverty suffered by millions of people around the world, of whom the FAR has chosen to help people who want to live in Rimkieta, a district of the capital of Burkina Faso, a place in Africa that few Europeans and not too many Africans would consider going to, much less living in. And on the other hand we are concerned, perhaps even more than with this human tragedy, with our own moral tragedy, that of the West, which, without realising it, lives in its “developed” culture, so hedonistic, materialistic and parasitic, incapable of fulfilling its commitment to contribute 0.7% of its GDP to the poorest inhabitants of the Earth or to wake up, in spite of the immense amount of coverage it receives, to the urgent need to help the world’s most disfavoured, who are millions and survive in the most extreme conditions of hardship and with no hope of a future.
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated population of some twelve or thirteen million inhabitants, an estimated life expectancy of 47, an estimated child mortality rate (death before the age of five) of over 20%, and an average daily income of around one euro. All estimated, all approximate, because that is the country’s level of development. It is here, in Burkina Faso, that the FAR works.
The FAR has established the policies of concentration on a limited number of activities, rigour in procedures, flexibility and speed in decision-making, and maximum austerity (“a euro wasted here is a euro wasted in Burkina,” with the Patrons of the Foundation paying all the necessary costs for its running).
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For further information, please visit:
http://www.amigosderimkieta.org
http://amigosderimkieta.blogspot.com
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// New kindergarten for 190 children.
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// Children in the kindergarten.
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// Water wells.
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// School of football.
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