Life Itself: Windows On The Life Of Europeans; Family Bertaud …
- February 17th, 2011
- Posted by EUEditor
Two French teachers, Monique and Pierre Bertaud, have passed up an easy retirement to spend their time now traveling to work in the desert interior of Burkina Faso, in Africa.
They are bringing the chance of a good education to hundreds in need.
A HOME TOWN IN THE HEART OF FRANCE
The city of Valence (city population 66000) on the Rhone River 100 kilometres South of Lyon offers a contented existence to Monique and Pierre Bertaud who retired from their jobs as a primary teacher and high school English specialist there, at the start of the last decade. … Read More »
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