World Vision recently unveiled four water points at Kabanga community centre in Bukemba community, Rutana province. Since then, sanitation challenges at Kabanga Basic School, at the nearby health facility, and within the community at large are being resolved.

Cases of water-borne diseases have reduced, and children like Evelyne no longer have to queue hours for water; something that had previously affected their school performance significantly.

In response to interconnected crises that have left 1.9 million children and adolescents out of school in Burundi, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced US$12 million in catalytic seed funding to roll out the first Multi-Year Resilience Programme in the country. Delivered in coordination with the Government of Burundi by consortia led by World Vision and UNICEF, the three-year programme seeks to mobilise an additional US$18 million from public and private donors.

Through funding from the World Food Programme, World Vision is implementing the Home Grown School Feeding project, which is enabling canteens to be run in 90 schools in Muyinga province, and providing hot meals to approximately 50,000 school children. At Mwakiro II Basic School, one of the benefiting schools, overall performance has increased to 76%, and good health among students is noticeable.

Through a resilience project funded by the World Food Programme (WFP), World Vision targeted the most vulnerable households in three communes after realising that they were lacking basic needs. The aim of the project is to reduce food and nutritional insecurity to increase the resilience of rural populations.

A total of 5,698 vulnerable households - including Amand's - benefited from the project. The father of five shares his story.