OWL: How do you help out your family?
Sibidi: I fetch water four times a day. I do the dishes. I take care of my little brothers and sisters, and I pound millet. I use a pestle to pound the millet.
OWL: Which chores do you like doing the most and the least?
Sibidi: I like fetching water the best because I get to spend time with my friends who go to the well with me. My best friend's name is Awa Naba and she is 10 years old, like me! I like pounding the millet the least. But now the machine (the Multifunctional Platform) will do the pounding and grinding for me.
OWL: Do you go to school?
Sibidi: Yes, and I like it very much. I like learning how to read and write. I like getting an education.
OWL: If you had nothing but free time all day long, what would you do?
Sibidi: I would study.
OWL: What do you want to do when you grow up?
Sibidi: I would like to become a nurse.
OWL: Thank you!
Sibidi: N'Fa N'Fa! (That's "thank you" in Gourmanchéma, the language of Djora.)
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| Meet 10-year-old Sibidi Naba. She lives in Djora, a village in the eastern region of Burkina Faso. Sibidi has 10 brothers and sisters. Her family raises farm animals and sells extra crops from their harvest of rice, millet, peanuts, and sesame seeds. OWL talked to Sibidi about her life and her hopes for the future, now that her village has its own Multifunctional Platform engine. |
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