10 March 2025

Women's Day and Solidarity: an ongoing commitment by Umbragroup

Every year we celebrate International Women's Day together with Umbragroup’s employees.  

We do it to give continuity to a moment that Valter Baldaccini cared about a lot: Women's Day was for him a special occasion to be together, it was one of those moments of care for the relationship and attention to others that were fundamental for him.

A better future for girls in Burkina Faso

On Women's Day this year, something special happened: the employees asked to forgo the mimosa gift and, instead, donate the amount that would have been allocated for its purchase to the educational project of distance support in Burkina Faso.

Thanks to this important choice, three girls, coming from extremely needy families, will have the opportunity to attend school for a year:

  • Awa is 6 years old; she is attending the last year of nursery school and will start elementary school in October. Due to terrorism, which is particularly affecting some areas of Burkina Faso, the parents had to flee their village and found refuge near one of the missions of the Apostle Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
  • Alexie is 9 years old, who has a very difficult family situation and in October 2024 she started attending the third grade.
  • Josephine, the eldest, is 12 years old and attends the sixth grade, the last year of primary education provided for by the Burkinabe school system. She also belongs to a very poor, large family and needs help.

In Burkina Faso there is a widespread situation of extreme poverty and attending school means, in addition to having access to education, the guarantee of at least one hot and complete meal a day. Thanks to all the Women of Umbragroup for having chosen to give the possibility of a better future to these girls.
 

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