In the ADI program for 2016, there is the plan to build a new school in the Peul village of Bombou. Once we arrived at the village, women and kids welcomed us with warm music and dances. For them, it was a real event having us in their village.
All inhabitants were sitting under a tree in the meeting place and we had a conversation with the elderly men of Bombou. Since the people there speak Peul and not Dogon, we had our own translator Meni Kodio, who is also busy with the Initiative Green Desert. During the meeting, Peul and Dogon offered us a couple of chickens, as a gesture of gratitude of our visit.
Just outside the village, we visited the site of the new school, which will integrate two different culture, the Dogon and the Peul. Even if they live so close to each other, they have difficulties to communicate due to many language’ variations and many dialects. The new school will connect together these two different ethnic group.