Expanding Economic Opportunities for Women in Burundi
On the heels of International Women’s Day, PCI, a Global Communities Partner, is proud to announce the launch of an expansion to our Women Empowered (WE) savings groups project in Burundi. Beginning last month through March 2022, implementing partner Burundi Friends International (BFI) will support the creation of 128 new WE savings groups in Gitega…
Read MoreLike Mother, Like Daughter: Building Toward Peace in Burundi
When an ethnic civil war broke out in Burundi in 1993, Odette Habonimana learned firsthand how peace begins at home. Only 9 years old at the time, she watched her mother welcome frantic neighbors, Hutu and Tutsi alike, to shelter with their family of 12 as chaos ensued around them. “People were killing each other…
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