Hair Color Simulation

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March 4, 2009, arrival at Ouagadougou airport in the afternoon. Djibril, beckons me after having deciphered cardboard that I tend to overreach! It is a tall man, very smiley, contact is made very quickly. We exchange news about his nephew, living in Paris, I know first trip to Burkina ago over fifteen years ... we come home, he rented a villa, located 5 km from the downtown but we are still in the urban fabric, Ouagadougou being extended over tens of kilometers ... Djibril found, for my first two nights in the capital, an empty house next to hers, their house being too small to accommodate me; a double bed and a bathroom with running water! That modest but awesome. It is very hot, the house belongs to the owner of his house is not rented, there would be work to do ...

The day ends Fespaco, the African film festival and has held every two years in Ouagadougou, I have very little time to smell the atmosphere of As far as I'm also starting to prepare my Sindou, a large village located 500 km west Ouagadougou where another family waiting for me. Friend understood my curiosity Fespaco and offers me to take me there. Djibril do not go out much at night he works on his records, he is a veterinarian and has created his NGO for distributing pharmaceutical products and advice to farmers and local agriculture.
It straddles, Ami and me, a motorcycle and "we stood in line," but there are more seats, we run into another room but the film, "Fire Morange" We are disappointed, many themes together and dialogue hollow ... we comfort with a drink in a tent, Ami told me what did not go cinema for eleven years! It is already confidences among women, and are fun questions that we ask tomorrow's children!
She leaves very little, she was surprised to have changed his life since her marriage, she went much, knew the bars of the capital. She was born into a wealthy family and married only after 30 years, she admits she was very blessed with her and she did not want to leave the comfort.

During the day, Ami had unearthed for me a place in a small bus leaving for Sindou, chartered by an association of women from this village and that there were going to celebrate the International Women's Day, March 8.

Departure for Sindou March 6th, two days after my arrival in Burkina Faso. Are stacked luggage, you sweat miles long, women have fun with my astonishment, I was pampered! These women live in Ouagadougou, they have for the most part, a job or a husband who works and some, including the President, Aceytou have established their trade in fashion clothing or cosmetics ... apparently successfully. I learn that two of them go regularly in the neighboring countries, Mercedes (new!) Up to Dakar sometimes to find new products that try their clients. Apparently, it is a solidarity group that relies on family and cultural ties in addition to ethnic solidarity. They speak Diula them. In Burkina Faso, there are 4 main ethnic groups and languages, the Duilas, the Mossi, the Fulani and Senufo ...
They asked for me to take my little digital camera, in their most beautiful clothing feast day of the woman requires.

links to not miss a site
http://ouaga-ca-bouge.net/ original and interactive .. .
blog: http://axelderriks2.blogspot.com/ photos in black & white ...

Conical Pendulum With Elastic String

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Sindou, the eve of March 8, debates were organized by the administrative head of the Province of Leraba to take stock of efforts to women. Assistance is large, the feast begins, the women are attentive but have difficulty speaking when Anne-Marie Traoré on their offers and it is the "godmother of the Day" and director of a research organization and Training in Ouagadougou. It also has a beautiful house in Sindou.
balance sheets submitted by county officials insist the problem of education, violence against women, the scarcity of firewood and to protect the resource, the problem of waste and stormwater to be discharged, women's access to micro-credit from a "Fund of Support activities for women, the problem of non-repayment of loans, the low success rate, non-literate women, the few women trained in the processing of cassava and rice production in groups ... agricultural

Anne-Marie Traoré back the microphone and asked the women present how they include the slogan Women's Day: "Investing in women, but she wants the debate will not install. She wants to persuade them that the investment must come from themselves and that is through the education of children.

We reviewed in Ouagadougou and discussed the situation of "no take-off" is located in Sindou. Anne-marie is a sociologist and has established an office of education and training. Micro-loans distributed to women of Sindou are spent quickly and remember t by the husbands! there is no selection of projects, or support, so far there has been a project set to start. Anne-Marie Traoré said that lack of trained people willing to do the job of coaching, "the bush", so far from Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso.

On 8 March, I attend all the speeches including that of the Governor of the Region that I find very "wooden language", but very controlled, it treats its image and "spoils" the association presidents are honored on this day of celebration of women, they are useful links for the implementation of its policy ... a parade of women, organized in thematic cohorts, taking into hand pick or brush, is acclaimed by the people of Sindou and surrounding musicians have played with enthusiasm all have suffered for hours under a terrible sun, a cascade of speeches and now leaving the rally, they will drink the juice of a locust sold in small plastic bags by women who prepared them to earn a few francs, sachets that will eventually land in the dry dust of the month of March.

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The village of Sindou is located at the western Burkina Faso, 500 km from the capital, near the border with Côte d'Ivoire, no running water, except for a privileged few who can afford the pipe connecting the water tower, without electricity, without garbage collection!
This large village has a school, post office, a police and a whole new market partly covered. It is in the region of the Cascades, agricultural area, equipped with dams and hydro-electric farm (see page 8). Since
Banfora, situated 51 km, Sindou is accessible by a proper track, through beautiful scenery varied, alternating lowlands and hills with cultivated rice fields and mango orchards. We are one of the finest agricultural regions of Burkina Faso.

Apart from agricultural activities, there are men and women traders, artisans, moped repair, baker, seamstress; women , sell the products of their manufacture, donuts, roasted peanuts and they have put in bags or vegetables but sparingly, and for some meager income. Producers and vegetable growers are many on the market. Young people have mounted for mobile phones, a small shop ; Indeed, no "power generator", the batteries can be recharged at home! The mobile phone has become an essential tool in conjunction with a sign of modernity, replacing fixed phone, no subscription to pay, calling cards, on sale everywhere, to manage closer to the expense. In Ouagadougou, every street corner, small vendors stand under your nose displays filled with cards at all prices, their profits are minimal, but allow them to eat ...
The blacksmith keeps an important status in the village, he manufactures agricultural implements, but also jewelry; seeing the little girl who helps operate the bellows, I thought of the child who gives the book its title Camara Laye "black child" in the first chapter, he describes a small black snake, the animal totem of the clan of blacksmiths, whose child will inherit wondered whether one day or if he preferred the way to school. It is a book that I read with pleasure Ouagadougou, during the siesta, overcome by heat (40 to 45 degrees in the shade!).

The weaver, Leontine, is passionate about his job! She sells her damask dyed with natural dyes and artificial (because there are still people in the village who know the plants that color), she also knows the art of mudcloth. She weaves and complexion. The canvas is a bogolan more or less thick cotton spun and woven in widths of 5 cm at a dozen cm and sold in rolls. These strips are sewn edge to edge and hand to form pieces of cloth of varying dimensions.
With Leontine, the weaver, Assa, who wants to train a craftsman weaving and fashion, the idea of creating a cooperative artisanal production of textiles and clothing came to me ... oh my! It must first upgrade the facility trades to ensure production even during the rainy season, the two women will learn about how to create a cooperative and I'm trying to find opportunities in Aquitaine, a huge program, but not unrealistic, difficulties lie in the formalities for export and transport costs, but we get information!