Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Nov 25th, 2008
With an outgoing personality, Gaston easily makes friends with his fellow students and eagerly chats about his life in Bujumbura and the future. He is a musician, a guitarist who loves music of many kinds, who has helped begin a Batwa choir within the student house to show the world that they have as [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Nov 18th, 2008
Josiane Gahimbare is 15 years old, one of the youngest students in the Community For Burundi household. Her name means ‘a small, beautiful thing,’ and she is rather shy. She comes from a family torn apart too soon, as her father was killed by rebel soldiers when she was 8 years old and [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Nov 10th, 2008
Godeberthe Ntimpirangeza is a young woman of 20 years who grew up in Mwaro, a province in the heart of Burundi. Mwaro is known as the only region in the country where the tribes have lived together in peace, yet even there the Batwa are marginalized and treated poorly. Godeberthe found herself, a [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing, Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2008
For over a month now, the students living in the Community for Burundi household have gathered together twice a week around the long tables in their first floor common room for English lessons. Though English is not an official language in this country, having the ability to speak it well is becoming an increasingly [...]