I am the President of one of the Self Help Groups. I attend a university. There are plenty of questions that young girls have without answers. We are afraid of our future homes if we observe what is happening in many homes now. I really appreciate what FWA does for Young girls. I ask you…
In the month of April, the finishing works for Ntaseka clinic maternity ward were completed. On April, 8, 2022, under ……………………………………..
My name is Jeanne. I am 17 years old. I have a 7 month old child. His father disowned him. During the pregnancy……………………………….
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…
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…
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.
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…
“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 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…
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.