FWA April 2022 Narrative Report

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 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…

“I am a woman who is a victim of psychological violence and no one knows it. My husband is a quite person but I am suffering. We got married illegally and no one told me that he had 2 other women that he married before me.One day, I was cultivating in the field and two…

My name is Claire. We use these principles as the SHGs’ leaders. Through this meeting, we have learned clearly what to do and help people with non-violence but what we find is that the leaders of the SHGs need to learn about both these principles and strategies of UCP. Actually, they need to be nonpartisan…

“I married a man but I suffered trauma from the first childbirth, as we saw in JOHARI’s window. I have a secret that no one else knows; my husband never buys me a fabric that is used to put a baby on the back (in our culture it is very important to buy this fabric…

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………………………..