18th March 2025 with Cardinal Lavigerie
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At the Pan Bila Centre
Shared by Philogène TEBABO LINGANAISO, postulant I would like to share with you my experience at the Pan Bila center of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. I started my apostolate there in June 2024. This center welcomes single mothers or those who have fled a forced marriage. The aim is to reunite them with their families or to study and become responsible and assume their role in society. In our country Burkina Faso, there is a tribe where, according to its culture, if a girl becomes pregnant out of wedlock, her family will chase her away. She cannot meet her father or brothers until she gives birth; if she does it is believed that they will die. At first, it was a little difficult for me to work with these girls because of the language barrier and it was also difficult to gain their trust, so the only…