@ Informateur.info- In favor of the commemoration of “December 11” marking the feast of 60 years of independence of Burkina Faso, the Federation of Burkinabè Associations in Côte d’Ivoire (FEDABCI) organized, on Sunday December 20, 2020, a blood donation operation, Gobelet-2 Plateaux, a sub-district of the commune of Cocody in the east of Abidjan.
Around 70 bags of blood were collected by a mobile unit of the National Blood Transfusion Center (CNTS), a privileged partner that has supported FEDABCI in its action for several years.
Welcoming the “commitment and humanist spirit” of the volunteers who “gave their blood to save lives”, the President of the Federation, Sia Koudougou explained that today’s operation gives way to the traditional festivities organized by his movement to celebrate the independence day of the mother country, Burkina Faso.
“Given the health situation linked to the crisis of the global coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19, we have limited this celebration to the blood donation operation”, explained Mr. Koudougou according to whom “there is no no better gift than to donate blood and therefore his life to others ”he observed for this third blood donation operation of the year after those of March and September 2020.
In addition, FEDABCI took the opportunity to distinguish two personalities who have marked, one the life of the federation and the other the associative life within the Burkinabé community in Côte d’Ivoire that are Mr. Ouibga. Abdoulaye, the predecessor of Sia Koudougou at the head of FEDABCI and Ms. Zoungrana née Nikiela Madeleine, President of Burkinabè Women in Côte d’Ivoire. Each recipient received an honorary diploma from President Sia Koudougou.
Visibly happy with this distinction, the two recipients have, in turn, expressed their gratitude to FEDABCI.
“I urge you to continue on this path in cohesion and unity to continue to rescue lives,” advised Ms. Zoungrana. For Mr. Ouibga, this distinction is proof ”that between me and my successor, there is no cloud. I am really moved by it, ”he said.
To close the ceremony, in a statement given to the press, President Sia Koudougou, on behalf of his federation, greeted the Burkinabé people who demonstrated “their high sense of democracy” during the presidential election which carried the candidate Roch Marc Christian Kaboré to the supreme magistracy for a second term of five years. Also, he calls on all “Burkinabè to support him in order to carry out his governance program.”
Alfred SIRIMA
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