MARCH 2022 NARRATIVE Report
My name is Jeanne. I am 17 years old. I have a 7 month old child. His father disowned him. During the pregnancy……………………………….
FWA 2021 ANNUAL NARRATIVE REPORT
My name is Nadine. I am from the indigenous people, I was told that in our ethnic group we do not study and I was discouraged when I attended school. When I was 10th grade, I was really discouraged until I gave up. During their home visits, FWA GBV accompanists found me and advised me…
Friends Women’s Association
FEBRUARY 2022 Report My name is Anniella. I am 28 years old. I have 3 children. The first is 2 years 6 months old. The second is 1 year 6 months old and the last is 3 months old. My husband abandoned me for no reason after 2 weeks of giving birth to the 2nd…
ACTION ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (AGBV)
In the month of December, there was one public event in Nyabiraba commune, Bujumbura province during the 16 days campaign of activism against GBV.
JANUARY 2022 NARRATIVE Report
The Self-Help Groups have continued to meet once a week. At the end of January 2022, we had a total of 149 SHGs in Kamenge, Bujumbura Mairie province for a total of 3538 women and 30 SHGs for 738 women in Nyabiraba commune, Bujumbura province.
FWA DECEMBER 2021 REPORT
DECEMBER 2021 Report I married a woman but she did not respect me. She frequented the bars to drink beer every day. A woman who drinks and comes home late deserves to be beaten for little correction; I beat her and we quarreled every day. To punish me well she became pregnant with another man…
FWA NOVEMBER 2021 Report
“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…
FWA OCTOBER 2021 NARRATIVE REPORT
“My name is Claire, this program has been very beneficial to me and family. My husband is alcoholic, every day he comes home drunk. I have suffered many forms of gender-based violence. Before coming to this training I was a woman who stays at home every day, I was ashamed to go among the others…
Maternity ward progress since October 2018
The Maternity ward project has done a significant progress since October 2018. This project has been very successful thanks to different donors including Vancouver Island Meeting, the GlobalGiving donors, African Great Lakes Initiative of the Friends Peace Teams, the Canadian Friends Service Committee and FWA members. This maternity ward is almost complete. Therefore Ntaseka clinic…
NYABIRABA GBV ACCOMPANISTS EVALUATION DAY
My name is Therese. I helped a married couple who was always fighting. The wife was beaten by her husband five times. She was every time wounded. The case became beyond my capacities that I referred them to the local administration for counselling. Now the husband no longer beats his wife. They are living peacefully.