Speech made by Dr. Boukerrou during the official award ceremony for scholarships to students from Burkina Faso in presence of the US Ambassador to Burkina Faso and other government dignitaries including the Director of LONAB who funded 50% of the Burkina Faso scholarship. Over the life of the program, USAID WA-WASH awarded 72 scholarships to master’s students from Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Niger.