On May 11-15, 2020, under the support of Segal Family Foundation (SFF), seven of FWA staff involved in the self-help (SHG) approach benefited a training for a better monitoring and evaluation of the SHGs. Facilitators were from BIRATURABA. FWA MAY 2020 NARRATIVE REPORT RSS May 2020 Report
On March 9, 2020, FWA joined the world to celebrate the Women’s International Day. In the area of women’s socio-economic empowerment, at the end of February 2020, FWA had a total of 78 self-help groups for a total of 1788 women. Members of the SHGs saved some money together to rejoice together for the step…
On February 23-29, 2020 Horanimana Grace and Misago Gisele, two of FWA trauma healing facilitators attended HROC advanced training at HROC Musanze center in Rwanda. Family Health International (FHI) has organized capacity building on target and index screening for Ntaseka clinic staff Get the whole report here
159 cases were consulted by our medical doctors, including 58 adults (27 women and 31 men), 21 children (13 girls and 8 boys), 69 HIV positive people and 11 pregnant women for ultrasound. The nurse received 270 patients including 187 adults and 83 children. December 10-13, 2019 was a mother-child week. Ntaseka clinic was one…
Under the support of Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), a delegation of five people from Quaker Peace Network (QPN) Burundi joined Mel Duncan (Cofounder of NP) for a field exposure in South Sudan from October 29th, 2019 to November 10th, 2019. The purpose was to learn how Unarmed Civilian Protection skills are used on the ground. The…
Under the support of the African Great Lakes Initiatives (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams, the national coordinator of Friends Women’s Association (FWA), NTAHUBA Parfaite has continued to do speaking tours in the United States both in schools and in Friends meetings. Find out more about October activities at Friends Women’s association inside this Report…
On August 5-9, 2019, the national coordinator of Friends Women’s Association (FWA),Pastor NTAHUBA Parfaite, attended a dialogue exchange program organized by theAmercican Friends Service Committee (AFSC) at the Concord&Suits Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose was to help goal-peace practitioners, donors and other key stakeholders shiftaway from traditional short term ‘event based’ models of prevention of…
My name is Chantal. In our family, we are three sisters and one brother. When I grew up, Igot married. However, after I had my first born, my husband left me and married anotherwife. I have been struggling a lot in order to survive with my kid. I could not go back to myfamily because…
On May 14-24, under the leadership of FWA, QPN Burundi organized a ten-day workshop on Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping (UCP). The venue was Kinindo training center (Mission Suedoise). We had a total of 20 participants, including 10 men and 10 women from 9 different Quaker organizations: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Evangelical…
ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM AND CAPACITY BUILDING On April 7-8, three people from FWA (the legal representative, the national coordinator and one nurse) attended a workshop organized by Quaker Service Norway (QSN). The main purpose was to improve our way of reporting. The facilitators were Jon-Magne Jonassen and Anne Britt Strømnes from QSN. Find the whole Report…