Burundi: Peacebuilding
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Cord will extend its programme over the coming years to reach more families in need; to help them to come to terms with their past experiences and to reduce their poverty.
Cord is building four new primary schools with 19 classrooms to educate 2,400 children. Water and sanitation are an integral part of our plan. Cord works in partnership with local parents and teachers associations in all its endeavours, believing that local ownership leads to sustainable success. Despite free primary education, only 25% of girls go to school; the pressures of domestic duties and work in the fields are too demanding for poorer families to spare their women. Many men are not keen to have an educated wife. Cord is running an awareness programme aimed at encouraging education for girls; 6,000 parents and their daughters will be involved via their local community, so that the mothers and decision-makers of the future can have the chance to learn. As part of Cord's holistic approach to sustainable peace, Cord is working with the local community to improve understanding of HIV and AIDS, Malaria prevention and other important health issues. |
The chronic need for schools to be built or restored and teachers to be trained is high on our agenda, so that the children of Giharo can enjoy an education- key to a long term peaceable future.
