Friends Women’s Association JANUARY 2023 Report

FWA 2025 PRIORITIES

Ciella was born from an HIV positive mother, she was suffering from malnutrition. Under the support of Red Cross Burundi, FWA was able to give milk to her. Esperance, one of the FWA health mediators, took the initiative to raise her from her own home………………………..

“My name is Esperance, what traumatizes me more than others is that my husband stole money from the saving group; we were at the end of the year, I was given a sum of 544,000 FBU to keep it, I put it in a safe place but I don’t know how my husband was able…

When I had an abortion my husband was not even waiting for me to be healed He used to rape me sexually and the cycle of being pregnant and having abortion began as usual;  in 10 years I lived with my husband I had 10 abortions.He said……………………….

“My name is Gerardine; my trauma was caused by my husband who abandoned me without saying goodbye. He left me with a pregnancy; I was weak I couldn’t work to survive. I was in the savings group but I couldn’t save and decide to leave it. All of you remember my look when I came…

My name is Desiderate; I got married at 17 in the village. After a few months my husband left me. I was pregnant and I gave birth to my baby when the husband had not yet returned home. My in-laws started mistreating me and pushed me to leave the house. I headed towards Bujumbura; I…