The Camillian Province of Burkin Faso, after the creation of many health-care institutions of a high level, thought that the time had come to dedicate itself to the training of nursing and obstetric staff so that the people of Burkina Faso could have at its service personnel who are qualified not only professionally but also morally.

    To achieve this goal, the Province in the year 2016 founded a private school for nurses and obstetricians, which was recognised as being on a level with state institutions of the same kind, with the authorisation of the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso: the Ecole Privée  de Santé Saint Camille ‘EPSCA’.

The school begun to operate in October 2016 and welcomed its first fifty students using local providers and thus limiting recruitment because of a lack of space. At the present time, the students (nurses and obstetricians) number 150 and in October 2018 the first diplomas for state nurses and for state obstetricians will be awarded. The course lasts three years.

Needing space and given that the demand is increasingly the whole time, the Camillian Province of Burkina Faso presented to the Committee for Aid to the Third World of the Italian Bishops’ Conference a construction project with accompanying equipment for a school for nurses and obstetricians that could have at least 300 students, planning in the future another wing for students who want to take part in specialisation courses in the field of nursing.

   On 15 February we had the joy of learning that our project for the construction of this school had been accepted by the Committee for Aid to the Third World of the Italian Bishops’ Conference which uses the 8 for every thousand fund (on the annual Italian tax declaration form) which Italian citizens allocate to the Catholic Church and its works of charity.

     With this news we raise up our thanks above all to provident God and then to all those Italians who through their 8 for every thousand have allowed us to engage in this project which will benefit thousands of sick people in Burkina Faso.