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THE FOUNDER:
Katrin Rohde

AMPO Facilities

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AMPO Orphanages

MIA-ALMA
Refuge for abandoned girls

AMPO - Social Services

TONDTENGA  
Agricultural college and organic farm

MAM DUNIA
Training kitchen and restaurant

PANG LA WENDE  
Wheelchair project

HANDICAP MOBILE  
Mobile wheelchair project

AMPO Clinic

AMPOmed.aid -
Medical aid for children in need

AMPO  
Training facilities

KAM NOGLOOM -
Association of former AMPO children

Who we are

The purpose of our Association is to support the facilities of AMPO, Association Managré Nooma pour la protection des orphelins (Association for the protection of orphans) in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. We assist children who are orphans or half-orphans, offering them protection, food, accommodation, schooling and psychological support. Another AMPO facility is there to assist young women who have been driven out of their villages, providing them with a fresh start and enabling them to lead independent lives. Our mission is therefore to promote education, integration, courage and strength towards a life of self-determination. . ...Mission statement

News from the world of AMPO

Charity gala for the treatment of children with severe burns

Charity gala in Ouagadougou! Katrin Rohde and Abou Ouattara (an international soccer player from Burkina Faso and former AMPO child) participated in a charity gala dinner organized by the Edmond Tapsoba Foundation to support the pediatrics department of the Charles de Gaulle Hospital in treating children with severe burns.

The event was attended by numerous professional soccer players from Burkina Faso and other countries, including André Onana from Cameroon. Jerseys were auctioned and donations were collected for the charity.

Professional German Bundesliga soccer player visits AMPO!

Edmond Tapsoba, professional soccer player for Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a native Burkinabé, drummed up a few friends and came to visit AMPO. They played against the boys from the orphanage! How exciting was that to play against such a star?

The boys of course were strongly supported by all the others and the noise was deafening.

It ended in a 5:4 win for the Edmond Tapsoba team – no mean feat. Well done boys!

After the match he went to visit the orphanages and talked to the directors of the various facilities.

What a wonderful day for everyone involved. Here in Europe we can’t stop looking at the photos.

Our thanks go to Edmond Tapsoba for this amazing visit.

Happy birthday!

Every year Katrin tries to be back in Ouagadougou with “her” children for her birthday.  And this year too she managed to be there. The day before her 77th birthday she landed on time.

Looking at these photos it is easy to understand why she always wants to celebrate there. She was welcomed yesterday with flowers, dancing and singing.

Finally sweets are handed round to everyone.

Congratulations, Katrin. Stay healthy and full of energy as always!

Do too many cooks spoil the broth?

No, certainly not!

These four wonderful ladies prepare top-quality dishes every day for the 111 orphan children we now look after.

On the menu for example is rice (with or without sauce), beans, spaghetti, Tô (made from cornmeal) and Babinda (a typical Burkina speciality).

There are lots of advantages in cooking together and enjoying regular meals:

eating healthy food, reducing stress levels, strengthening team spirit, increasing concentration and learning to share.

And the wonderful faces of these four cooks give a whole new meaning to a happy meal.

Bravo to the ladies who give and receive so much love from our children.

Rehab Unit: What sort of patients do we admit?

The objective is to support mothers and children in need of medical care or physiotherapy who cannot afford to pay for a lengthy stay in hospital or for follow-up treatment.

In the AMPO Rehab Unit they can wait for a scheduled operation or receive post-operative care until they are able to return home.

Here are only some of the cases to illustrate the absolute need for such care.

Our unit is known throughout the city for professional treatment with the highest standard of hygiene, so more and more hospitals refer these truly touching cases to AMPO

If you would like to support the Rehab Unit, you can donate here

 

Another success story …

Children grow up!  R. (a former AMPO boy) was not what you might call an easy child. But now he has found his way in life. He has just graduated from Minnesota State University and is now a fully fledged, qualified engineer in construction and mechanical engineering.

Congratulations! We’re crossing our fingers for him in the US – quite a challenge for a Burkinabé.

Here’s to a new chapter in life!

This is the beginning of a new chapter in life for 56 young people. Dénis Yameogo, the Director General of AMPO, was proud to host the ceremony at TondTenga Agricultural College. Among the dignitaries also present were the elders of the villages who had given permission for the young people to start their training.

And once again we are pleased to see that there are also female students taking part in the training course.

They will learn about livestock farming and organic crop production and return to their villages with their newly acquired knowledge after two years.

We’ll keep our fingers crossed!

Education – something AMPO can provide

Today we’d like you to meet Rachelle. She was born on the 27th of June 2007 into a totally regular family in Ouahigouya, in the north of Burkina Faso. She had siblings, her father was a teacher and had a nice childhood.

But then her father got ill. As we know, medical treatment in Burkina Faso is expensive and the family soon could no longer afford to pay the medical bills. The mother tried everything to earn enough to pay for medication and continue to support her family at the same time.

It was the beginning of a downward spiral. The father died. His family refused to take in the mother and her children since the marriage had not been concluded according to local tradition at the time.

An aunt stepped in to help in the meantime, but she too was in a precarious financial situation.

Rachelle’s mother appealed to AMPO and she was admitted to the Girls‘ Orphanage at the age of 13. At the time she was in the eighth grade at secondary school. AMPO paid for her school fees to enable her to continue her education.

Rachelle is incredibly hard-working and eager to learn. In May 2022 she passed her intermediate certificate and is studying hard for her final school exams this year, special subject, literature.

Our best wishes for success go to Rachelle and we congratulate her on her progress.!

Would you like to sponsor a child on its path of achievement?

Become an AMPO sponsor – the children will be so grateful.

Archive

The audiobook MAMA TENGA: My African Life has been released

Katrin Rohde's book "MAMA TENGA: My African Life" is now available as an audiobook and can be listened to through well-known audiobook providers.

If you haven't read the book yet, now is the perfect opportunity to listen to the audiobook. It is read by Katrin Rohde herself!

"Courage, humanity, and the call of a new life – told by the woman who became MAMA TENGA. After a fateful trip to West Africa, Katrin Rohde makes a radical decision: She sells all her possessions in Germany and emigrates to Burkina Faso. In the capital, Ouagadougou, she begins to dedicate herself to street children – boys struggling to survive amidst poverty, drugs, and violence. This first step becomes a life-changing mission."

Listen to the audiobook on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/0vtPT9kQBY51d8ZoV1DjRz?si=UErgchI1SBiL_i_nLIL73g

Katrin Rohde Foundation, NY

Did you know we have a Foundation in New York?

Fortunately for the Foundation there is a university there where some of the students are trying to publicise AMPO in the US as part of their marketing studies.

Two professors from the Fordham University came to visit us in Berlin:

Genevieve O’Connor, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing

Yuliya Komarova, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing

This was their second visit and they met Katrin Rohde to discuss the way forward.

They already published an article on AMPO in the “Fordham Business” university magazine, presenting the Charity and all its facilities.

It’s very exciting!

We have a new Board!

This year our Annual General Meeting took place in Hamburg – and we were really pleased to see a large turnout. Some of our members travelled quite a distance to join us.

Every 2 years we hold elections for the Board. Andrew Sharp, Magrit Ketelsen, Fabiola Richter and Diren Bulut were not standing for re-election. For the past 8 years Andrew and Magrit have spared no effort to provide loyal support to the association and for that they deserve our heartfelt thanks.

Charity concert for AMPO!

A charity concert for AMPO was held alongside the Exhibition for Peace in the Johanniskirche in Bonn. We were completely taken by surprise when we were asked to send some flyers and some of the products we have for sale and of course we were only too happy to do so.

The performers were the Nils Kercher Trio with a special guest from Mali, Barou Kouyaté, a virtuoso on the traditional Ngoni lute.

Entrance was by donation. We would like to express our thanks to all the members of the audience who responded to the appeal to make a donation to AMPO.

Our special thanks go to Nils Kercher and his musicians for this wonderful initiative!

If you would like to plan an event, please get in touch

Photos: (c) Klaus Martin Bardey

Sponsored run by Schloss Plön High School

A great big thanks to the students of Schloss Plön High School!

Some time ago the news reached us that a sponsored run had been organised to raise money for AMPO. They ran unbelievable lengths to the tune of EUR 4,600, one student covered 39 km!

The donation was symbolically handed over on 30th September 2024  to one of our members, Johann Vosteen, who was obviously having a good time and was very impressed by the students.

Plön is very close to the heart of Katrin Rohde, our founder, and we are very happy to see that AMPO is still close to the heart of Plön.

Recent activities

We had a lot going on last week.

On 19.09. we had an opportunity once more to report on our trip to Burkina Faso in Berlin and invited the residents at Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Berolina eG to join us on our journey, sharing all our emotions and impressions.

We were supported by Renate and her husband from the  Alsamar e.V., association who drummed in the evening and prepared a wonderful African finger food buffet.

Back in Hamburg at the church fair on 21.09. we met with great success selling our products. The sun was shining, temperatures rising and our members were there to answer any questions about our products.

Katrin Rohde gave a presentation in Würzburg as part of her lecture tour to schools in the Roth District.

Further details will follow later.

If you would like us to arrange a talk, or if you would like to organise a stall to offer our products, please let us know.

We’re ready to help!

With heart and hand

One of our members, Christine Labudda, spares no effort in her ongoing support for AMPO. Her latest foray was at the open-air theatre festival in Merxhausen.

During the interval at the production of “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter“ she raised more than 2.900 euros selling chocolate. She regularly asks the manufacturer to donate “second quality“ chocolate which is not sold in normal supermarkets.

She spends a great deal of time wrapping the chocolate and uses her charm to sell it to the theatre-goers.

If you would like to follow her example by doing something similar, Let us know and we will send you supporting information.

1st starting signal: Hand in hand against skills shortage

With 2 strong partners at our side, we were able to hold the first intensive and concrete discussions. Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Berolina, represented by Mr Frank Schrecker (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), agreed to provide accommodation for trainees in the future. And AHK Pflegeteam GmbH, represented by Managing Director Andreas Kröger, is of course also urgently looking for trainees and is ready to help with all the bureaucratic challenges.

We are delighted that we have been able to open the first doors with this concept and are pleased about these constructive discussions!