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Volunteer Work Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso gained independence from France in 1960, but it has faced many challenges since that time including instability, droughts, famines, and corruption. Various coups have occurred throughout its history, with the most recent ones in January and September 2022.
The landlocked nation in West Africa is now one of the poorest countries in the world ranking in 184th place out of 191 countries and territories in 2021 in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of a country. Life expectancy is just 59.73 years (2020) and in one recent 12 month period a staggering 1000,000 children were orphaned as a result of AIDS/HIV. In fact one out of every five children in Burkina Faso is an orphan or as been abandoned.
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