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 much talent as other people.

Three years ago Gaston came to the city after his father asked Etienne Ndayishimiye, both a Member of Parliament and a friend to Community For Burundi, if his youngest son could live with him in order to pursue an education. The young man left his parents and six siblings in Makamba, a refugee camp near the Burundian border in Tanzania, to come to Bujumbura where he has completed middle school. His family had moved to Tanzania when Gaston was just 12 years old and lived in very poor conditions there. Since he has come to Bujumbura, his parents and all but two brothers have returned to Bururi, Burundi, though their life there is still difficult.

At 20 years old, Gaston has a heart to help others with his skills and education. He would like to have the expertise upon graduation to bring electricity to his village and help his church with electrical matters, as well. He dreams of assisting those people living in remote areas with access to electricity. He also wants to someday build a large home to house Batwa students, helping them complete their education as Community For Burundi is helping him now.

His gratitude for the opportunity to study with the aid of Community for Burundi and life in a house where he sleeps well and has good food to eat overflows in his seemingly permanent grin and his gracious words as he repeats his thanks again and again.