Burkina Faso is a republic and until 1984 it was called Upper Volta, also called Upper Volta. Burkina has an area of 272,967 km². More than 8 times the size of Belgium.
The country borders on Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Niger.
The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou. There are more than 20 million inhabitants.

Awareness-raising is done here in collaboration with the ONG APPE who is committed to the prevention of so-called “accidents domestiques” in children. A substantial part of the prevention is of course the avoidance of accidents as a result of the reuse of the caustic soda.