Friends Women’s Association   APRIL 2023 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…

“My name is Emeline. I lost my mother when I was very young and my father married another woman, which was not easy for me because this woman mistreated me and I decided to get married illegally at the age bof 15 with the idea of escaping my stepmother’s abuse.Being married too little, I didn’t…

“When I was newly married my husband used to bring women into our house. He told me to prepare them something to eat and I did it because of the fear of being beaten. I was told that the wife must bear all the evil that her husband does and I chose to endure and…

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…

“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…

THE WOMEN’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT CENTER The FWA has continued the construction of the Women’s Socio Economic Empowement Center (WSEEC). The aim of this project is to avail training rooms and a temporary safe shelter for gender-based violence survivors at the FWA headquarters. This project will cost $200,000. We have so far mobilized $39,100 including $16,600…