Posted in Batwa Students Housing, Batwa Village on Dec 24th, 2009
Merry Christmas from Burundi! All the students have now returned home for the holiday break and are celebrating Christmas with their families and villages. The families at Matara will celebrate Christmas together for the first time in this new community!
Matara Update
These two families have much to celebrate, as they both have [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jul 16th, 2009
Community for Burundi is celebrating the graduation of our first two students! Join us in congratulating Evariste and Yves on completing their secondary education. They are now part of an elite group of Batwa… high school graduates.
Yves
Evariste
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jul 15th, 2009
The very first day in Burundi, the very first meeting, the very first friend…I want to tell you my story.
I was a little bit anxious. I am a very introverted person, social networking and making conversations with strangers is not my strong suit. But I had been praying and preparing for this [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jul 6th, 2009
Saturday night the students invited us to their home one last time. This was their final night of the school year, and they wanted to commemorate the occasion together. The next morning they would all return to their villages up country for the summer months.
Claude, J.J. and I drove up the [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing, Batwa Village on Apr 7th, 2009
This past week, we were privileged to received David and Sydneyann Binion Shook for few days in Burundi. They came to visit their Batwa friends, connect with the Batwa students and witness the work of Community For Burundi (CFB) in particular.
Our time together began with a special reception at the student house and offices [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Jan 16th, 2009
Last week I had the opportunity to read all the Batwa student profiles in one sitting. It was such an illustrative exercise, hearing their collective voice as they journey together during this academic year. Though each student has a unique story, they also have common threads that bind them together.
I felt as [...]
Posted in Batwa Students Housing on Dec 12th, 2008
Didieu grew up in the rural region of Mwaro, at the heart of Burundi. He is currently attending a local college and dreams of studying medicine some day. But that is just the beginning of his Wish List…
• Help the Batwa by bringing medical services to them, because as it stands now most cannot [...]
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 [...]