He started in 1974 and the people thought that he was crazy. Yacouba Sawadogo took the responsibility of replant his region, by using the Zai, a traditional way of farming that was forgotten. His goal: Restore the agriculture in dry lands that were affected by the change of weather. Forty years later his effort worked out and was applied in eight more countries. More than 3 million of acres are now useful for agriculture.
There are people which their strong will and decision inspire respect. By the way they face the destiny and they fight fatality. Yacouba Sawadogo might not have all the solutions but his strong personality and clear objective helped to achieve his goal and become an inspiring person. In 1970 the people of Burkina Faso were being pushed away by the desert and the damage that was causing to its lands, this particular person has the strong objective of make the region useful for people. This means to achieve what seems impossible. He is decided to make plant seeds into a grown that is affected by the weather using a traditional technique of agriculture.
By thinking a little bit about this man and his story it seems that the only impossible thing is to over come our own fears and mindset. Also that's not enough, he had the knowledge, a clear goal of what he wanted to achieve and he worked really hard, 40 years, to make his dream come to reality. In this sense it seems that the way to be successful is not rocket science. Why? Because the only thing that we need now is knowledge and in this knowledge era we have, technically, everything that we need to be successful in what we want.
To conclude, I am not saying that suddenly the life is easier, life is hard and so hard that we all die to live it. What I am trying to say is that we only need to focus in what we really want and once we have the idea or the clear thought then by following simple but clear actions our goal has really high chances to become true.
Finally, in this sense and expanding a little bit the concept of this person I would like to think, what each one of us could do the same that Mr. Yacouba did, I think we'll not have deforestation problems.
Well I hope you like this idea and I invite you to join my project, with ideas, thoughts, resources of "1 Árbol 1 persona" or "1 tree 1 soul" and join the concept I am trying to build
