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Community Development: how we work with women’s groups in Burundi

Community Development Program, Updates

Abana Bacu, Kazi ya Mama and Afya ya Mama: our work with women’s groups on children’s education, family income and maternal health….
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Abana Bacu brought families together for a back-to-school dialogue

  • Abana Bacu

Community Development Program, Updates

On 9 September 2026, we gathered mothers from women’s groups we support and their children to discuss how families, schools and communities can support children through the school year….
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Women traders in Bujumbura and Rumonge explore shared business opportunities

  • Kazi ya Mama

Community Development Program, Updates

Through Kazi ya Mama, we brought women traders from Bujumbura and Rumonge together to compare business challenges and consider possible cooperation….
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Mwanga+ uses artistic performances to share adolescent health information

Community Development Program, Updates

The Mwanga+ artistic caravan uses music, theatre and interactive activities to share sexual and reproductive health messages with young people in Rutana’s Musenyi refugee camps….
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More than 50 children receive school materials through Abana Bacu

  • Abana Bacu

Community Development Program, Updates

Ahead of the 2025 school year, more than 50 children from families supported by Ingiro Action Center received school materials….
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Women supported by Ingiro speak at a Bujumbura panel

  • Kazi ya Mama

Community Development Program, Updates

At an INGO-organized panel, women supported by Ingiro shared their experiences. Our Director General outlined the Centre’s work and its Umukenyezi Iwacu radio programme….
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Abana Bacu brings two women’s groups together around children’s education

  • Abana Bacu

Community Development Program, Updates

Women from Runtown Ladies and Baho Urwize reviewed the 2024 school year and discussed education, family responsibilities, entrepreneurship and sexual and reproductive health….
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Rema England representative visits Runtown Ladies

  • Kazi ya Mama

Community Development Program, Updates

We welcomed Sally Botteley of Rema England to meet Runtown Ladies, whose members received a loan from Rema Burundi for business activities….
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Business-planning workshop with AFSC support in Gitega

  • Kazi ya Mama

Community Development Program, Updates

We organised a business-planning workshop in Gitega for women from cooperatives and associations in Bujumbura, Gitega and Rumonge….
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Two women sit at a dark wooden table working on a laptop, with a phone and a bottle of Coca-Cola on the table and an Ingiro Action Center banner and whiteboard behind them.

Individual coaching for Run Town Ladies

  • Kazi ya Mama

Community Development Program, Updates

We held a series of personalised coaching interviews with 12 members of Run Town Ladies in partnership with Rema Burundi, with support from Equity and Associates. Each woman could discuss her specific…
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