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 result was that we came up with a proposal for the 2020 elections monitoring.
FWA has partnered with the Burundian Alliance Against HIV/AIDS in educating young people on sexual and reproductive health. This project is called “Strengthening the community response to HIV and TB”. In the month of December 2017, a total of 24 discussion groups was achieved. We had a total of 480 participants, and all of them…
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…
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…
FWA August 2017 Report During the month of August 2017, the activities done were about READY, RSS, CHIVPP and IWRH projects, On August 15th, 2017, there was FWA General Assembly Meeting in Kibimba During this month of August 2017, medical follow up, nutritional support and home visits were done for our HIV positive people. One discussion…
During this month of February 2019, medical follow up and home visits were done for our HIV positive people. On February 20, 2019, there was a meeting with some of our HIV positive people beneficiaries. The main topics were Observance and socio-economic empowerment. Ntahuba Parfaite, FWA national coordinator, welcoming our HIV positive beneficiaries at Ntaseka…
During this month of August 2018, medical follow up and home visits were done for our HIVpositive people.Through Red Cross Burundi, The World Food Program has started to provide nutritional support to our HIV positive beneficiaries. Download the Report of activities done in August