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=**Africa Country Research**=

5.7 Storyboard Bibliography I found that this country is in dire shape. The life expectancy is quite low, the literacy rate very low reflecting the unemployment rate, as about 78% of the population is illiterate and 77% of the population unemployed, it can be assumed that those who are literate are employed and vice versa. This means that if more children are educated today, more people will have jobs tomorrow. This will bring up the standard of living because with jobs, people will probably have more appropriate shelter and a better diet. Better education also means better trained doctors in Burkina Faso, which will most likely bring up the life expectancy and bring down the infant mortality rate. This country is in great need of education assistance because It has a vey high unemployment rate, a very low literacy rate, a low standard of living and altogether a low HDI (the fourth lowest in the world), but if it is better educated it will have a much better HDI due to the reasons I stated above.
 * Name of country || Burkina Faso ||
 * Population size || 15,250,000 ||
 * Per capita GDP || $1,300 ||
 * Main exports || cotton, livestock, gold ||
 * Main imports || capital goods, foodstuffs, petroleum ||
 * Resources || manganese, limestone, marble; small deposits of goBld, phosphates, pumice, salt ||
 * Main ethnic groups || Mossi, Gurunsi, Senufo, Lobi, Bobo, Mande, and Fulani ||
 * Primary religions || Muslim, Indigenous, Christian ||
 * Unemployment rate || 77% ||
 * Infant mortality rate || 86.02 /1,000 live births ||
 * Life expectancy || 52.55 years ||
 * Literacy rate || 21.8% ||
 * Human Development Index (HDI) || The HDI provides a composite measure of three dimensions of human development: living a long and healthy life, being educated and having a decent standard of living, (high being good, low being bad). Burkina Faso's HDI is low. ||

1. How long has the organization been in existence? Books for Africa has been around since 1988. 2. Who founded it? Tom Warth is the founder of Books for Africa. 3. Where is it headquartered? The headquarters of Books for Africa is in Minnesota. 4. What is its purpose? The purpose is to provide schools in 45 different African countries with brand new books to read and learn from. 5. Does it provide assistance just to Africa, or is it active around the world? Books for Africa only provides assistance to Africa, hence the name Books for Africa. 6. Which problem(s) is it addressing in Africa? Books for Africa is addressing the problem of schools having no or little books. 7. Does it provide assistance to just one or several countries in Africa? Books for Africa provides assistance to 45 different countries. 8. How does the organization raise money for its efforts? Books for Africa raises money for its efforts through donations 9. What is your organization's budget? Books for Africa’s budget depends on how much money it is donated. 10. How much of the money it collects for Africa is used for overhead (expenses)? Unknown. 11. Have the reviews of your organization's efforts been favorable or critical, i.e., what kind of a "report card" has it been getting? Books for Africa’s efforts have been favorable. 12. How would you rate your organization's efforts? Has it done "a good job?" Yes, I think that Books for Africa has done a good job. 13. Do you think donating money to your organization is worthwhile? Yes, because if the children of Burkina Faso are better educated, Then the extremely low literacy rate will rise and the extremely high unemployment rate will go down.