AMPO Germany

We just spent a great evening with Edmond Tapsoba, the Burkinabé footballer (Bayer 04 Leverkusen). The Chairman of our Board, Johann Vosteen, met up with him in Leverkusen. Edmond Tapsoba set up his own foundation in Ouagadougou to support children in need. The two of them chatted about the goals, ideas and projects common to the Edmond Tapsoba Foundation and AMPO.

Last summer Edmond Tapsoba visited the AMPO orphanage and organised a friendly match with his friends against the AMPO boys.

We are looking forward to a bright future because we all have the interests of the children in Burkina Faso at heart.

Edmond received our “Ampoline“ to say thank you to him and his team.

30 years of AMPO – that was really something to celebrate!

A charity enterprise focussed solely on one organisation has been in existence for 30 years against all the odds.

We do not have global sponsors or a huge advertising budget to support large-scale sporting events. Our aim is to pass on any donations we receive to children, women and people with disabilities in need.

That is why this unique celebration was organised as a charity event.

The Director General of AMPO, Dénis P. Yameogo, and the Orphanage Director, Lamsa Bogni, were invited from Burkina Faso to report first-hand on the local situation.

We also had the good fortune to have the support of our wonderful partners.

Our thanks go to:

  • Strandpauli, a fantastic location with good service and great food
  • Superlaut event management in the capable hands of Sabrina Frahm
  • Jon Flemming Olsen, together with his band, for terrific music throughout the evening
  • Katharina Fegebank (Deputy  Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), who had some very moving words to say in honour of Katrin Rohde and AMPO
  • H.E. Toro Justin Ouoro, the Ambassador of Burkina Faso to Germany, who travelled from Berlin to give a speech in honour of AMPO
  • Eric Marr, the talkmaster who guided us through the evening with professionalism and kind words
  • sevenpeaks film production for giving us lasting memories of the event
  • Nils Rehm, the photographer who also captured every moving moment
  • Dietlind Broders, the interpreter who helped us overcome any language barriers.

And of course we would express our sincere thanks to all our sponsors for making this evening possible!

We received considerable donations for the benefit of many people in need in Burkina Faso, a country that goes largely unnoticed in Europe.

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