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    • Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.Clotilde Ndayisenga with her daughter Ines Nihorimbere at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
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    Burundi

    Why are we in Burundi? With high levels of poverty, malnutrition, and maternal mortality, Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Concern Worldwide has been operational in Burundi since 1997 and currently implements programmes focusing on health, nutrition, livelihoods, and WASH.

    *We are currently responding to the threat of COVID-19 in Burundi. Find out more about our response here.

     

    Almost 80% of Burundians are living in poverty (51% in extreme poverty)

    The maternal mortality rate in Burundi is amongst the worst in the world with 740 deaths per 100,000 live births, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world to have a child. Our work in Burundi focuses on nutrition, health, and livelihoods, with a particular emphasis on improving nutrition and overall health among people who are excluded from the health system. We specialise in community-based health and nutrition interventions.

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    COVID-19 messaging

    A total of 29,078 households (Concern beneficiaries) were sensitised on COVID-19 during the month of April 2020. This is approximately 162,836 people.

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    Aline Nsabimana’s family shell and sort the dried beans they have just harvested. Chris de Bode/Concern Worldwide.
    Aline Nsabimana’s family shell and sort the dried beans they have just harvested. Chris de Bode/Concern Worldwide.
    Community Health Worker Jeannette Icimanishatse with one-year-old Nadia Niyihankuye Bukinanyana, Cibitoke, Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Community Health Worker Jeannette Icimanishatse with one-year-old Nadia Niyihankuye Bukinanyana, Cibitoke, Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Clotilde Ndayisenga (25) with her daughter Arlene Akimana (2) at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Clotilde Ndayisenga (25) with her daughter Arlene Akimana (2) at their home in Rugombo, Cibitoke. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Concern Worldwide.
    Nurse Orene Nahimana measures three-month-old Roger Bimenyimana’s rate of breathing to diagnose if he has pneumonia. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    Nurse Orene Nahimana measures three-month-old Roger Bimenyimana’s rate of breathing to diagnose if he has pneumonia. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    Widow Isabelle Mundana (66) earns a living from selling white aubergines at market which she cultivates on her plot of land and kitchen garden, along with caja peas, Chinese cabbage, amaranth, onion and spinach. She has benefitted from nutrition and hygiene training and a series of money transfers as part of Concern’s community and household resilience programme to improve living conditions and livelihoods for the most vulnerable. Photo: Darren Vaughan/Concern Worldwide.
    Isabelle has received training and cash transfers. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Concern Worldwide.

    How we're helping in Burundi

    We are working hard to combat extreme poverty and build resilience in Burundi through our livelihoods and health and nutrition programmes.

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    Violette Bukeyeneza sitting with her family in Cibitoke, Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith / Concern Worldwide.
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    Explore the links between hunger, food production and consumption, and the COVID-19 pandemic, in Concern’s Global Hunger Index 2020- how close are we to Zero Hunger?

    Odette Kanziza, along with family members, stands on front of her kitchen garden which was constructed with thanks to a generous $100 (€95) public donation. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
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    3 March 2017

    Fund a kitchen garden and change lives

    Almost a month into the kitchen garden project Health and Nutrition Coordinator in Burundi, Zenon Ndikuriyo, describes how kitchen gardens – constructed with your support – are benefitting families in Burundi.

    A thriving kitchen garden in Burundi, constructed with support from Concern. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
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    6 February 2017

    Kitchen gardens in Burundi

    My name is Zenon Ndikuriyo, I’m a Health and Nutrition Coordinator with Concern from the east African country of Burundi. Burundi is one of the world’s poorest countries and this year in particular, we’re facing real food security challenges.

     

    Cherica (2) washes her hands in front of her grandmother's home in Cite Soleil, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/ Concern Worldwide
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    11 October 2020

    Global Hunger Index: Is the world on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030?

    Explore the links between hunger, food production and consumption, and the COVID-19 pandemic, in Concern’s Global Hunger Index 2020- how close are we to Zero Hunger?

    Violette Bukeyeneza sitting with her family in Cibitoke, Burundi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith / Concern Worldwide.
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    How a bunch of bananas could save a family this Christmas

    Odette Kanziza, along with family members, stands on front of her kitchen garden which was constructed with thanks to a generous $100 (€95) public donation. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
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    Fund a kitchen garden and change lives

    A thriving kitchen garden in Burundi, constructed with support from Concern. Photo: Concern Worldwide.
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    6 February 2017

    Kitchen gardens in Burundi

    My name is Zenon Ndikuriyo, I’m a Health and Nutrition Coordinator with Concern from the east African country of Burundi. Burundi is one of the world’s poorest countries and this year in particular, we’re facing real food security challenges.

     

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    Graduation beneficiaries in front of the shop they have set up under the project; they have taken the initiative to establish a hand-washing station in front of the shop and they report soap sales have increased in the last few days as communities have been sensitised on the importance of hand-washing to prevent COVID transmission. Burundi Photo: Maud Biton / Concern Worldwide
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    This page outlines the research and learning of Concern's Graduation approach in Rwanda and Burundi, as a means of sustainably addressing extreme poverty at the household level.

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    This issue of Knowledge Matters gives an overview of Concern's work and learning during twenty years of USAID-funded Child Survival programs from 1998 - 2018.

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