21/12/2013
Future Village Mugisa wishes to honour the memory of Thomas Sankara of Burkina-Faso as he was born 21st of December.
Sankara was the revolutionary president of the Republic of Burkina-Faso from 1983-1987.
His commitment to women's rights led him to outlaw FEMALE GE***AL MUTILATION, FORCED MARRIAGES and polygamy, while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.
His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritizing education with a nation-wide literacy campaign, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles.
Other components of his national agenda included PLANTING OVER TEN MILLION TREES to halt the growing desertification of the Sahel, doubling wheat production by redistributing land from feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents, and establishing an ambitious road and rail construction program to "tie the nation together".
On the localized level Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had over 350 communities construct schools with their own labour.
Below is an artistic picture of our hero in his trademark red barrette.
Also are two pictures that show FVM sensitising the community of our forth coming Eco-Ranch & farming demonstration project. The other is of the FVM team introducing children of our SSTi program to space & technology. All of this is a legacy of the idea and revolution that was Sankara & other such leaders.
