Restoration Burundi
For a Peaceful and Prosperous family
Peace and Justice
RESTOBU is now running the Peace Clubs in Schools project. Under the support of Great Lakes Outreach, GLO UK, and Mennonite Central Committee, 14 peace clubs called "Clubs Mon Pays Burundi" (Burundi my beloved nation or my Burundi) were created in the all schools of excellence and other selected schools as well as in Kirundo province. Schools of excellence are very strategic for Restobu as these schools bring together the most talented students from different provinces and municipalities and from different ethnic groups.
Socio-Economic Program
Since 2015, we have introduced a pre-cooperative movement in the community on behalf of development cells. Poverty is more marked in rural areas than in urban areas. So cooperatives will help people to get out of dependency, promote co-responsibility of members and integral and sustainable development. They will also contribute to peace building in Burundi.
Today our country is in extreme poverty and dependence on foreign aid, so it is important to create a system that will lead the population, especially the young and vulnerable groups of the poor, to economic autonomy. The co-responsibility of members will furthermore strengthen reconciliation, social cohesion and
Peace club (My Burundi)
Peace clubs are an exchange platform, a structure within schools, in communities and in other places that bring people together with a permanent way for the transmission of the ideal peace values.
In 2017, Restobu introduced the club movement in secondary schools, want to supervise young people in terms of peacebuilding and social justice in their respective communities. Schools have an objectives to train students in key areas of the country, Restobu, based on the principle that says that a good education is the basis of development and that if you want to destroy a country you go through education. Restobu has introduced the movement of clubs into schools in order to bring effective supervision around biblical values with access to the ideal of peace to a better future. "In addition to the sciences and literary lessons they learn, we must add biblical values linked to
Development cell
Development cells are community peace clubs that Restoration Burundi has created in the rpovinces of Bujumbura, Kirundo and Cibitoke to reinforce the culture of peace. In Bujumbura, the cells were formed at Mubone in the North Outskirts of Bujumbura, in Buterere suburb, near the main dump. This suburb houses poor communities some living by scavenging on the dump to earn what to eat or some items like scrapped wood coal to sell. Many households are instable and some end up in divorce leaving children in streets. Some can try a small commerce where a mother of 5 children can use a capital of 2$.
Araturaba Broadcast
Based on the principle that "Ignorance of law excuses no one, Restoration Burundi has launched a radio program called ARATURABA (law is our concern) to senzitize on law and regulatory texts. The majority of Burundians did not get an opportunity to learn about law leading them to confuse about their rights, obligations and their limits. This broadcast is produced in a studio. It is a purely technical program and only lawyers are invited to speak in it when it comes to explaining a given law. In order to start a new law, we identify which are relevant to the needs of the population and a session of discussion is organised for the stakeholders including
Why Small Ruminants?
Breeding a cow is much demanding while most of our beneficiaries live under poverty line some without any property or tiny property. So, Restobu gives them either piglets, goats or rabbits which are easier to breed. They form a solidarity chain through which they spread those animals as they multiply.
What is a Health Insurance Card
This is the policy of the Governement to help those who are not affiliated to insurance campanies espevially non-workers, to access health care easilly. The health insurance card along with the ambulance quittance cost 5000bif around 2$ and can cover household health care including children under 18 for the whole year. For Restobu, The program is broader. In the regions where we operate, in partnership with local authority, we identify the vulnerable including those aged more than 60, returnees, single mothers, pygmies and give those cards eve