Project Nanoro: Final challenges before the opening of Bethel High School

TÜV AUSTRIA has been supporting the construction of Bethel High School in Burkina Faso since 2019.

Three years after the start of construction, the Nanoro project is nearing completion. The buildings have been erected, the photovoltaic system has been installed, and in October Bethel High School will open its doors to the first 300 students.

The community of Nanoro is located about 85 kilometers northwest of the capital Ouagadougou. Over the past three years, the Bethel High School campus has been built here – a technical school specializing in electrical engineering, architecture and accounting. In addition to the natural priority of educating young people, the project serves to strengthen rural regions. Thanks to the boarding school, students from surrounding communities, more distant places and orphans are also able to receive an education. In the already existing Bethel High School in Ouagadougou, attention is also paid to paving the way to education for orphans and economically needy people. Another focus is on educating young girls – in the existing school, the proportion of female students is 44 percent.

TÜV AUSTRIA Vorstände Stefan Haas, CEO (l), und Christoph Wenninger, CFO (r), überreichten den Bethel High School-Projektinitiatoren Jacques Konkobo und Peter Klein (Mitte, v.l.n.r.) eine Spende von €15.000,- (C) TÜV AUSTRIA Mario Koller — TÜV AUSTRIA board members Stefan Haas, CEO (l), and Christoph Wenninger, CFO (r), presented Bethel High School project initiators Jacques Konkobo and Peter Klein (center, from left to right) with a donation of €15,000 (C) TÜV AUSTRIA Mario Koller

Since 2019, the only Austrian technical inspection association [TÜV] has supported the project with more than €50,000 so far. In early August 2023, TÜV AUSTRIA CEO Stefan Haas and CFO Christoph Wenninger presented project coordinator Jacques Konkobo and architect Peter Klein with another donation check in the amount of €15,000. This amount will help to cope with the final challenges, such as the purchase of workshop equipment and furniture as well as the final connection of the well to the sanitary facilities.

Jacques Konkobo, himself a graduate of HTL Mödling, thanked CEO Stefan Haas and CFO Christoph Wenninger with a handmade sculpture of his home country Burkina Faso for the ongoing support of TÜV AUSTRIA.

TÜV AUSTRIA CEO Stefan Haas (l) und CFO Christoph Wenninger dem Projektkoordinator Jacques Konkobo und Architekten Peter Klein (Mitte, Rechts) einen weiteren Spendenscheck in Höhe von € 15.000,–. (C) TÜV AUSTRIA, Mario Koller — TÜV AUSTRIA CEO Stefan Haas (l) and CFO Christoph Wenninger present the project coordinator Jacques Konkobo and architect Peter Klein (center, right) with another donation check in the amount of € 15,000. (C) TÜV AUSTRIA, Mario Koller

Neubau der Technischen Schule Bethel High School in Nanoro, Burkina Faso: Im Hintergrund der Brunnen, davor Werkstättengebäude und drei der vier Klassengebäude (eines je Jahrgang) mit je vier Klassen. (C) ICEP, TOPCart226 — New building of the Bethel High School in Nanoro, Burkina Faso: In the background the well, in front of it workshop buildings and three of the four class buildings (one for each grade) with four classes each. (C) ICEP, TOPCart226

Seit 2019 hat TÜV AUSTRIA das Projekt Nanoro mit mehr als €50.000,- unterstützt (v.l.n.r. Jacques Konkobo, Architekt Peter Klein, TÜV AUSTRIA CFO Christoph Wenninger). (C) TÜV AUSTRIA, Mario Koller. — Since 2019, TÜV AUSTRIA has supported the Nanoro project with more than €50,000 (from left to right Jacques Konkobo, architect Peter Klein, TÜV AUSTRIA CFO Christoph Wenninger). (C) TÜV AUSTRIA, Mario Koller.

Blick über die Klassengebäude in Richtung der Schlaf- und Waschgebäude der Mädchen.
Rechts davon die Küche und dann das Schlaf- und das Sanitärgebäude der Burschen. (C) IPEC, TOPCart226 — View over the class buildings towards the girls’ dormitory and washroom buildings. To the right, the kitchen and then the boys’ dormitory and washroom building. (C) IPEC, TOPCart226

If you would also like to support this wonderful and sustainable project, you can do so with a contribution to the following donation account: ICEP-donation account, IBAN: AT20 2011 1000 0256 6133, BIC/SWIFT: GIBAATWW

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