FWA AUGUST 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…

Maternity Ward Building In the month of April 2021, with the support from the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), we have continued putting broth on the walls of Ntaseka clinic extension plus the control work. The next step will be the tiling of the building, installation of toilets andshowers.

“I was in the 9th year of high school when my boyfriend impregnated me, and my family rejected me from their house. My boyfriend wanted to rent a house for me and give me capital for a small business but his mother suggested that I could go and live with her……………..

“I married an alcoholic man. He came home at midnight and beat me while I did nothing. One day he beat me when I was pregnant and I had an abortion. This abortion left scars in my heart; I didn’t want to be pregnant anymore.Unfortunately I found myself pregnant again, and my husband married another…

Our medical doctors consulted with 150 cases, including 69 adults (18 men and 51 women), 19 children (10 boys and 9 girls), 47 HIV positive people and 15 pregnant women for ultrasound. The nurse received 188 patients including 141 adults and 47 children

“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…