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Friday, May 9, 2025

ENOUGH Campaign against child hunger and malnutrition launched in Burundi

ENOUGH Campaign against child hunger and malnutrition launched in Burundi

World Vision has shown us the way

Children’s reading skills are generally poor in Burundi for early grades of primary schools. The situation is even worse for rural areas. In Cankuzo...

Donation gives access to reading materials

Nadine Ndayikeza, 12-year-old and her classmates from the eastern part of Burundi used to face an issue of lack of infrastructures. World Vision partnered...

World Vision’s GIK helps produce nutritious food

Thierry, 3, who kept relapsing after he was discharged from a World Vision nearby nutrition centre, has now access to nutritious food at his home and...

A woman volunteering for her community

Ritha Ntihabose is a woman with a light skin colour, living in Rutegama ADP of Muramvya province, centre west of Burundi. Ritha is a rather quite woman who...

Community literacy education in Burundi helps a grandmother teach her granddaughter to read

Fifty-five-year-old Elisabeth is determined to see her grandchildren go to school and receive a quality education. “I want them to study and grow up to be...

Partnership against Pied-Bot infirmity

World Vision Burundi signs an agreement of partnership with RCPHB (Network of centers for people living with disabilities) in eradicating of the Pied Bot...

World Vision Burundi donates drugs and medical equipment

On Monday January 26, 2015, World Vision Burundi supported the Burundi Ministry of Public Health with drugs and medical equipment worth 6.7 million US...

A coat that prevents coughs

Godelieve Ndayizeye, seven years old and in 1st grade, used to go to school coughing or decided to be absent to school when mornings were very cold. Two...

Hour of ownership

Nadine Niyomwungere of Cankuzo ADP, in eastern Burundi finished grade 1 first in her class and continues to do well in grade 2. Her success in school has...

Nicknamed after a banana tree

When the recent civil war broke out in Burundi, hundreds of thousands of people fled the country for their safety. More than a decade later, when the...

VDF-i Report

Anonciate Bayubahe is a Burundian lady whose work with World Vision in Burundi as a village Development Facilitator (VDF) gave her a deep insight of the...

Hope of an Orphan Girl

Delicia Igiraneza is a seven-year-old orphan girl, in the first grade in Mbuye ADP, centre west of Burundi. Since her parents died recently, she is being...

The seed of reading is ready for harvest

Nathalie Buzeba, a 48-year-old rural mother, rarely spends a day without reading. Her attitude towards reading destroys the assumption that there is no...

Writing and Reading before School

An initial baseline reading skill assessment conducted on 560 school children from 28 schools of Cankuzo and Muyaga ADPs, eastern part of Burundi by World...

Emergency Response in Bujumbura

World Vision Burundi in partnership with the Government of Burundi joins more than 20,000 flood-affected people; floods that have killed dozens of people...

A Treatment that makes the Difference

Liella is a tree-year-old girl who lives in Bukeye commune, centre of Burundi, When she was one-year-old, she became sick, her health status worsened daily...

A Child with a Big Worm in his Body

Samuel Rwasa is a Burundian child who was left alone when he was seven months old. His mother left him at her aunt, a widow raising three children. Samuel...

Beating Discrimination through culture

While Burundi is recovering from a long ethnic war, it is still sensitive to talk about the responsibilities of the different ethnic groups in the...

A treatment that makes the difference

Liella, 3, lives in Bukeye commune in Rutegama ADP, centre of Burundi, an ADP funded by World Vision Canada. When she was one year old, she became sick...

A new cow brings joy to a family affected by civil war

Jean Eloge Ruhumuriza, 14, is an orphan. His father was killed in the recent Burundi civil war. More than 20 cows were stolen by the killers. His mother...

Gates of custody open

When Euphrasie Sadende went to deliver for her first time in 2006, she was kept in her nearby hospital for three months. She was unable to pay the bills...

Close-up: Orphans' struggle for life

Marie Therese Nduwumukama is a Burundian woman whose work with World Vision in Burundi compelled her to start helping vulnerable people. In the following...

Five year-old Remy Iteriteka needs medicine for worms.

Remy Iteriteka, 5, lives at Buvyukana sub hill of Gasorwe zone, Muyinga province, in the northeast of Burundi. Remy was rejected by his mother after her...

Warm blanket is the best medicine for a cough

Elvis Iteriteka is a four-year-old boy living at Nyarurambi hill, Cankuzo, the eastern province of Burundi. He has suffered for a long time with a cough...